SIFT
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sift
[sift] (computer science)
To extract certain desired information items from a large quantity of data.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
SIFT
SHARE Internal Fortran Translator. Translation utility
designed for converting Fortran II to Fortran IV. The word
"sift" was often used as a verb to describe converting code
from one language to another. Sammet 1969, p.153.
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