A reference card or quick reference card is a concise bundling of common syntactic rules and idioms of a particular formal language. It serves as an ad hoc memory aid for an experienced user.
In spite of what the name reference card suggest, the term only tends to be used in the narrow context of programming languages or markup languages. However, this concept is now being adopted to portray concise information in many other fields.
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“A sign, or representamen, is something which stands to somebody for something in some respect or capacity. It addresses somebody, that is, creates in the mind of that person an equivalent sign, or perhaps a more developed sign. That sign which it creates I call the interpretant of the first sign. The sign stands for something, its object. It stands for that object, not in all respects, but in reference to a sort of idea, which I have sometimes called the ground of the representamen.”
—Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)
“The Card Catalogue: “See also” leads into the wilderness.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)