renumberer

noun

renumberer

noun

Etymology From renumber + -er.

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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Programming, Sciences Dated A 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:
  • 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:
1 more example
  • 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:

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