His 1964 publication of The Jargon of Authenticity took aim at the halo such writers had attached to words like " angst ", " decision " and " leap ".

The dictionary incorporates the text of other free resources, such as the Jargon File, as well as covering many other computing-related topics.

People primarily known for their contributions to the consciousness of the programmer subculture of hackers include Richard Stallman, the founder of the free software movement and the GNU project, president of the Free Software Foundation and author of the famous Emacs text editor as well as the GNU Compiler Collection ( GCC ), and Eric S. Raymond, one of the founders of the Open Source Initiative and writer of the famous text The Cathedral and the Bazaar and many other essays, maintainer of the Jargon File ( which was previously maintained by Guy L. Steele, Jr .).

Configuration files also do more than just modify settings, they often ( in the form of an " rc file ") run a set of commands upon startup ( for example, the " rc file " for a shell might instruct the shell to change directories, run certain programs, delete or create files —- many things which do not involve modifying variables in the shell itself and so were not in the shell's dotfiles ); according to the Jargon File, this convention is borrowed from " runcom files " on the CTSS operating system ; see run commands for details.

Chinook Jargon – a pidgin based on Chinookan and with many words loaned from other languages, which was used in trade along the Pacific Northwest coast and adjoining areas inland.

The name was changed to Jargon Software in late 1998 in light-hearted recognition of the many buzzwords pertaining to the technology that underlies the company's products.

The Jargon File ( a. k. a. The New Hacker's Dictionary ), which is a glossary of internet slang maintained by Eric S. Raymond, differentiates kludge from kluge and cites usage examples predating 1962.

This Jargon File entry notes kludge apparently derives via British military slang from Scots kludge or kludgie meaning " a common toilet ", and became confused with U. S. kluge during or after World War II.

The Jargon File gives possible etymologies from naval slang ( cf.

* Jargon File, a glossary of computer programmer slang

The Jargon File entry for rip notes that the term originated in Amiga slang, where it referred to the extraction of multimedia content from program data.

The Jargon File is a glossary of hacker slang, much of which is in-jokes or is based on in-jokes.

* Jargon File – a glossary of hacker slang.

The Jargon File dictionary of hacker slang defined " gorilla arm " as the failure to understand the ergonomics of vertically mounted touchscreens for prolonged use.

The Jargon File states that it is rumored to have been based on IBM's JCL, and the syntax may have been a joke.

A vocabulary of the Houma may be another under-documented Western Muskogean language or a version of Mobilian Jargon.

The name Spuzzum may be a local variant of spatsum, a Chinook Jargon word for the reed used in basket weaving.

According to the Jargon File, American hackers switched to what they later discovered to be the British quotation system because placing a period inside a quotation mark can change the meaning of data strings that are meant to be typed character-for-character.

( The exception is the ampersand: as the Jargon File states, " what could be sillier?

There is continuing debate as to when Mobilian Jargon first began to be spoken.

A similar quotation appears in Robert A. Heinlein's 1941 short story " Logic of Empire " (" You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity "); this was noticed in 1996 ( five years before Bigler identified the Robert J. Hanlon citation ) and first referenced in version 4. 0. 0 of the Jargon File, with speculation that Hanlon's Razor might be a corruption of " Heinlein's Razor ".

* According to the Jargon File, a journalist once asked hacker Paul Boutin what he thought the biggest problem in computing in the 1990s would be.

Both salal and shallon are presumed to be of Native American origin: the former from Chinook Jargon sallal, and the latter from a native word whose pronunciation was recorded by Lewis and Clark as " shelwel, shellwell ".

This usage was immortalized in the Jargon File and from there the use spread to some younger users seeking to be part of the classical Internet community.

Mobilian Jargon ( also Mobilian trade language, Mobilian Trade Jargon, Chickasaw – Choctaw trade language, Yamá ) was a pidgin used as a lingua franca among Native American groups living along the Gulf of Mexico around the time of European settlement of the region.

The term jargon has also been used to describe pidgins, and is found in the names of some pidgins, such as Chinook Jargon.

In earlier times, the term jargon would refer to trade languages used by people who spoke different native tongues to communicate, such as the Chinook Jargon.

A computer's or CPU's " sex " can also mean the endianness of the computer architecture used .< ref > For hardware, the Jargon File also reports the less common expression byte sex.

Examples include Pitman Shorthand, Boyd's Syllabic Shorthand, Samuel Taylor's Universal Stenography, the French Prévost-Delaunay, and the Duployé system, adapted to write the Kamloops Wawa ( used for Chinook Jargon ) writing system.

The forms of the Jargon used by elders in Warm Springs vary considerably from the heavily-creolized form at Grand Ronde.

Chinook Jargon is a trade language, and was once used throughout much of the Pacific Northwest.

The common name of the plant in British Columbia is soopolallie, a word deriving from the historic Chinook Jargon trading language used in the North American Pacific Northwest in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

According to linguist Geoffrey D. Kimball, the lyrics of the song are derived in part from Mobilian Jargon, an extinct Native American trade language consisting mostly of Choctaw and Chickasaw words and once used by Southeastern Indians, African Americans, and European settlers and their descendants in the Gulf Coast Region.

In Mobilian Jargon, čokəma fehna ( interpreted as " jockomo feeno ") was a commonly used phrase, meaning " very good.

Jargon Software products are used by developers to develop and deploy smart-client mobile software applications that can run both online and offline.

Skookum means " strong ", " big " and " reliable " in the Chinook Jargon and regional English as used in the Pacific Northwest.

* Skookum, a similar word used in the Pacific Northwest, from the Chinook Jargon

T & G: The Collected Poems ( 1936 – 1966 ) ( Penland, N. C .: The Jargon Society, 1969 ).

He is known for designing and implementing the REXX programming language ( published in IBM Systems Journal in 1984 ) and the NetRexx programming language ( 1996 – 1997 ), his work on color perception and image processing ( 1982 – 1985 ), the STET folding editor ( 1977 ), the LEXX live parsing editor ( 1985, possibly the first editor with color highlighting ) for the Oxford English Dictionary, electronic publishing, SGML applications, PMGlobe, the IBM Jargon file ( IBMJARG ) through 1990, Java-related languages, the Acorn System 1 simulator,

Jargon is terminology which is especially defined in relationship to a specific activity, profession, group, or event.

Jargon is terminology that is especially defined in relationship to a specific activity, profession or group.

Jargon is a fictive language invented by and for the group as a verbal shorthand.

Chechahco, more commonly spelled cheechako, is a Chinook Jargon word for " newcomer ", and the film focuses on a group of would-be prospectors sailing for Alaska.