nb

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nb - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Nb
      n 1: a soft grey ductile metallic element used in alloys; occurs
           in niobite; formerly called columbium [syn: niobium,
           Nb, atomic number 41]
      2: a Latin phrase (or its abbreviation) used to indicate that
         special attention should be paid to something; "the margins
         of his book were generously supplied with pencilled NBs"
         [syn: nota bene, NB, N.B.]

nb - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  C
  NB
  
     <language> A programming language designed by Dennis Ritchie
     at AT&T Bell Labs ca. 1972 for systems programming on the
     PDP-11 and immediately used to reimplement Unix.
  
     It was called "C" because many features derived from an
     earlier compiler named "B".  In fact, C was briefly named
     "NB".  B was itself strongly influenced by BCPL.  Before
     Bjarne Stroustrup settled the question by designing C++,
     there was a humorous debate over whether C's successor should
     be named "D" or "P" (following B and C in "BCPL").
  
     C is terse, low-level and permissive.  It has a macro preprocessor
     , cpp.
  
     Partly due to its distribution with Unix, C became immensely
     popular outside Bell Labs after about 1980 and is now the
     dominant language in systems and microcomputer applications
     programming.  It has grown popular due to its simplicity,
     efficiency, and flexibility.  C programs are often easily
     adapted to new environments.
  
     C is often described, with a mixture of fondness and disdain,
     as "a language that combines all the elegance and power of
     assembly language with all the readability and
     maintainability of assembly language".
  
     Ritchie's original C, known as K&R C after Kernighan and
     Ritchie's book, has been standardised (and simultaneously
     modified) as ANSI C.
  
     See also ACCU, ae, c68, c386, C-Interp, cxref,
     dbx, dsp56k-gcc, dsp56165-gcc, gc, GCT, GNU C,
     GNU superoptimiser, Harvest C, malloc, mpl,
     Pthreads, ups.
  
     [Jargon File]
  
     (1996-06-01)
  

nb - V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) :

  NB
         Nota bene (slang, Usenet, IRC)