executable
Speech parts
1. executable - Noun
2. executable - Adjective
3. executable - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Capable of being executed; feasible; as, an executable project.
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[Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript.
A proposed profile of UML-Executable UML-supports creating a complete and implementation-neutral self-contained expression of application functionality. Steven J. Mellor and Marc J. Balcer define this profile in their book Executable UML: A Foundation for Model-Driven Architecture.
Python is executable pseudocode. Perl is executable line noise.
Adam Kennedy's PPI project focused on parsing Perl code as a document (retaining its integrity as a document), instead of parsing Perl as executable code (that not even Perl itself can always do).
A common convention is to have a cgi-bin/ directory at the base of the directory tree and treat all executable files within this directory (and no other, for security) as CGI scripts.
Additionally, the registered version can now create standalone compiled executable files that do not require an external runtime file.