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> Booleans

Truth values.

> Turing Machines

Tape automata. (Though there are a lot of variants.)

> Liskov Substitution Principle

Behavioral subtyping. Even Liskov calls it this, but "SOBID" doesn't have the same ring to it. (BOIDS?)

> ISO 8601

Lexicographic dates. (ISO 8601 also specifies ordinal dates, with day of year (i.e. YYYY-DDD), but the "big endian" ordering principle is still accurate.)

Although "ISO 8601" tells you what specification describes it, which is a lot better than widgets named after people.



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