Glossary

AIAA
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics See: AIAA web site
API
Stands for Application Programming Interface, it is a set of functions, constants, requirements written in a specific programming langage for application developpers.
CGNS/MLL
The Mid-Level Library (MLL) is an example implementation of the CGNS/HDF5 mapping. See: CGNS/MLL - An API for C and Fortran applications.
CGNS/HDF5
A CGNS/SIDS implementation on HDF5.
CGNS/SIDS
The Standard Interface Data Specification is the main part of the CGNS standard: the data model.
Python
Programming language, widely used for web tools. See Python reference site.
ReST
The Restructured Text syntax is a simple documentation syntax. It makes the work of writers easier by delegating most of the rendering commands and options to generators such as Sphinx.
Sphinx
A tool that makes it easy to create intelligent and beautiful documentation. It was originally created for the Python documentation, and it has excellent facilities for the documentation of software projects in a range of languages. See Sphinx reference site.