renumberer

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noun

A program that renumbers lines of code in another program (for example, to allow insertion of further lines between them).

Scrabble 14

Meanings

nounrenumberer (plural renumberers)

plural renumberers

  1. datedcomputingA program that renumbers lines of code in another program (for example, to allow insertion of further lines between them).

    Bit Bucket software tor the Atari including disassembler, renumberer, character generator[…]

    1980, Byte, volume 5
    2 more examples

    A 260-line program, which took other renumberers between two and four minutes to renumber, took the Monkey Wrench only eight seconds.

    1982 July 26, InfoWorld, volume 4, number 29, page 41

    Programmed with a utility such as a program line editor or a renumberer, the EPROM leaves the whole of your RAM free to hold the program on which you are working.

    1983, Owen Neville Bishop, Henry Budgett, Simple interfacing projects

Origin

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APA

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Chicago

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