À la carte (disambiguation)
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À la carte is a French expression meaning "from the card", and is used in restaurant terminology.
A la Carte may also refer to:
- A la Carte (Triumvirat album) (1978)
- À la Carte (Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung album) (1984)
- À la carte (EP), a 2002 EP by Fujifabric
- Alacarte, a GNOME menu editor
- "A La Cart", an episode of the American crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
- A-la-carte music services are MP3 stores, such as Amazon or iTunes
- A la carte pay television, a pricing model where cable and satellite television customers subscribe to individually selected channels
The phrase has also found considerable use in computer science and category theory literature, including research works in the field of functional programming, such as: "Datatypes à la carte", "Compilation à la Carte", "Evaluation à la Carte". In this context, the phrase is used to concisely refer to a possibility to assemble an abstract "meal" (such as a complex functor) from a set of small, readily available parts (coproduct operands in case of datatypes à la carte).
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