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Initialization (computing)

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Initialization in computing, is the setting (or "formatting") of a variable to some initial value at run time. Setting the memory to hexadecimal zeroes is also sometimes known as "clearing" or sometimes coloquially, for IBM/360 programmers, "zapping" the variable to zero - probably originating in the "ZERO ADD PACKED" - ZAP assembler instruction )

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