vignette|La lettre grecque minuscule λ (lambda) est un symbole non officiel de la théorie des langages de programmation. Cet usage dérive du lambda-calcul, un modèle de calcul introduit par Alonzo Church dans les années 1930 et largement utilisé par les chercheurs en langage de programmation. Il orne la couverture du texte classique Structure et interprétation des programmes informatiques, et apparaît dans le titre des fameux Lambda Papers de 1975 à 1980, écrits par Gerald Jay Sussman et Guy Steele, les développeurs du langage de programmation Scheme.
The history of the graphical user interface, understood as the use of graphic icons and a pointing device to control a computer, covers a five-decade span of incremental refinements, built on some constant core principles. Several vendors have created their own windowing systems based on independent code, but with basic elements in common that define the WIMP "window, icon, menu and pointing device" paradigm. There have been important technological achievements, and enhancements to the general interaction in small steps over previous systems.
A widget toolkit, widget library, GUI toolkit, or UX library is a library or a collection of libraries containing a set of graphical control elements (called widgets) used to construct the graphical user interface (GUI) of programs. Most widget toolkits additionally include their own rendering engine. This engine can be specific to a certain operating system or windowing system or contain back-ends to interface with more multiple ones and also with rendering APIs such as OpenGL, OpenVG, or EGL.