The Jargon File is a glossary and usage dictionary of slang used by computer programmers. The original Jargon File was a collection of terms from technical...

Jargon, or technical language, is the specialized terminology associated with a particular field or area of activity. Jargon is normally employed in a...

Eric S. Raymond (ed.). "The on-line hacker Jargon File, version 4.4.8. metasyntactic variable". Jargon File. Retrieved 2024-05-30. RFC 3092 - Etymology...

technical community insist the latter is the correct usage, as in the Jargon File definition. Sometimes, "hacker" is simply used synonymously with "geek":...

after its inclusion in the Jargon File, a glossary of computer programmer slang, in 1990. Later that year, the Jargon File editors noted lack of knowledge...

simple streams of packets. The Jargon File version 4.4.7 lists this as the definition of cat: # To spew an entire file to the screen or some other output...

Retrieved 4 January 2024. "grok". Jargon File. Retrieved 18 October 2024. "Jargon File version 2.7.1". Jargon File. 1 March 1991. Retrieved 18 October...

Retrieved 2019-06-04. [5] Archived 2006-09-19 at the Wayback Machine This article is based in part on the Jargon File, which is in the public domain....

malevolent purposes‍—‌lies in exploiting weaknesses in computer security. The Jargon File, an influential but not universally accepted compendium of hacker slang...

greeting that required several character constants for its expression. The Jargon File reports that "hello, world" instead originated in 1967 with the language...

name being explained as a contraction of 'pubic'. For hardware, the Jargon File also reports the less common expression byte sex [1]. It is unclear whether...

information, but it can be used for intentional overwriting as well. The Jargon File defines clobbering as To overwrite, usually unintentionally: "I walked...

1986). "All Sorts of Software". BYTE. p. 269. Retrieved 27 August 2015. Kill file entry in the Jargon File Kill file definition entry at NewsDemon.com...

century, as British and American (respectively) military slang. The Jargon File (a.k.a. The New Hacker's Dictionary), a glossary of computer programmer...

Usenet. Backbone cabal Cabal Internet meme Lumber Cartel "TINC". The Jargon File. Retrieved August 15, 2020. Coleman, E. Gabriella (2013). Coding Freedom:...

the Roguelike game NetHack. In the 1990s, he edited and updated the Jargon File, published as The New Hacker's Dictionary. Raymond was born in Boston...

fundamentally incapable of carrying the important part of the message. The Jargon File gives an example of this type of humor: a red index card with GREEN written...

creaturism". The Jargon File. Ver. 4.4.7. Retrieved June 20, 2017. Raymond, Eric S.; et al. (December 29, 2003). "feeping creature". The Jargon File. Ver. 4.4...

at the University of Kentucky. He compiled the first version of the Jargon File. He is the author of An Operating Systems Vade Mecum, a textbook on operating...

following World War II, and an example photocopy is shown in the Jargon File. The Jargon File also mentions that German hackers had in turn developed their...

several files into a single archive?". Gnu.org. Archived from the original on 22 July 2010. Retrieved 27 January 2010. "tarball, The Jargon File, version...

sports to politics (e.g. "Obama owns Fox News" or "Trump owns CNN"). The Jargon File, a historical glossary of computer slang, defines the hacker usage of...

executions likely to expose Heisenbugs Memory debugger "The Jargon File: heisenbug". "The Jargon File: Mandelbug". Catb.org. Retrieved 2013-09-05. Raymond,...

in the 7th decimal place was a typo by the MAD typesetters. "sagan". Jargon File. P.M. Gresshoff (2004). "Book Reviews: Plant Signal Transduction". Annals...

Jargon File: shotgun debugging". DEFINITION shotgun debugging Posted by: Margaret Rouse WhatIs.com This article is based in part on the Jargon File,...

unlucky, inept, or newbie people. This article is based in part on the Jargon File, which is in the public domain. A Large Dictionary of Russian Nicknames...

"MetaExtensions". WHATWG Wiki. Retrieved 2017-10-27. Jargon File ICBM Address Entry This article is based in part on the Jargon File, which is in the public domain....

ability to jump into the middle of a loop in C. This leads to what the Jargon File calls "the most dramatic use yet seen of fall through in C". C's default...

from the Jargon File is that "You can't grep dead trees", which comes from the Unix command grep, which searches the contents of text files. This means...

topics This article is based in part on the Jargon File, version 4.2.1, which is in the public domain. "Jargon File, v4.2.1". 5 March 2000. Retrieved 23 June...