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.

Early uses of the term are in Erik Mueller's 1987 Ph. D. dissertation and in Eric Raymond's 1991 Jargon File.

* alt = This article incorporates text from the corresponding entry in the Jargon File, which is in the public domain according to its Introduction.

* Jargon File entry

* Entry for " TINC " at the Jargon File

According to the Jargon File, " Gibson's near-total ignorance of computers and the present-day hacker culture enabled him to speculate about the role of computers and hackers in the future in ways hackers have since found both irritatingly naïve and tremendously stimulating.

He is also known for his 1990 edit and later updates of the Jargon File, currently in print as the The New Hacker's Dictionary.

Noting that the Jargon File had not been maintained since about 1983, he adopted it in 1990 and currently has a third edition in print.

One purist, Paul Dourish, maintains an archived original version of the Jargon File, because, he says, Raymond's updates " essentially destroyed what held it together.

* The New Hacker's Dictionary ( editor ) ( MIT Press, paperback ISBN 0-262-68092-0, cloth ISBN 0-262-18178-9 ) — printed version of the Jargon File with Raymond listed as the editor.

* ELIZA effect, from the Jargon File, version 4. 4. 7.

* This article is partly based on the public domain Jargon File

* FAQ definition, Jargon File

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

* Godwin's law at the Public Domain Jargon File

The Jargon File, which describes itself as a " Hacker's Dictionary " and has thrice been published under that name, puts grok in a programming context:

The entry existed in the very earliest forms of the Jargon File, dating from the early 1980s.

* Grok definition in the Jargon File

") A large segment of the technical community insist the latter is the " correct " usage of the word ( see the Jargon File definition below ).

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 .).

However, the Jargon File reports that considerable overlap existed for the early phreaking at the beginning of the 1970s.

The Jargon File hence calls him " a true hacker who blundered ".

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

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Progressive Jargon Aphasia is a fluent or receptive aphasia in which the patient's speech is incomprehensible, but appears to make sense to them.

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 original name of the settlement was " New York Alki ," " Alki " being a word in Chinook Jargon ( Wawa ) meaning " eventually " or " by and by.

Eric S Raymond, an open source advocate who co-founded the Open Source Initiative, restated Conway's Law in The New Hacker's Dictionary, a reference work based on the Jargon File he maintained for years.

In 1982, Steele edited The Hacker's Dictionary ( Harper & Row, 1983 ; ISBN 0-06-091082-8 ), which was a print version of the Jargon File.

The Hacker's Jargon File incorrectly states that GECOS ( also known as GCOS ) was copied from DOS / 360, which was not the case.

Eric S. Raymond compiled the original AI Koans into a collection as part of his work on the Hacker's Jargon Dictionary.

Compiled in the TMRC Dictionary, it included terms that later became part of the hacker's Jargon File, such as " foo ", " mung ", and " frob ".

will compile a Unicode-compatible DICT file called mydict, with heading My Dictionary, from mydict. txt which is in Jargon File format i. e.:

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,

* Business Jargon Dictionary

* Watson's Dictionary of Weasel Words: Contemporary Cliches, Cant and Management Jargon ( 2004 ) ISBN 978-1-74051-366-1

Radio Speakers: Narrators, News Junkies, Sports Jockeys, Tattletales, Tipsters, Toastmasters and Coffee Klatch Couples Who Verbalized the Jargon of the Aural Ether from the 1920s to the 1980s — A Biographical Dictionary.

* " Arice in Jargon " ( 1984 ), published in ATLAS " ( fanzine )

Long Feather ), and Kaadaashaan (" Kadachan "), as well Sitka Charley, as a young man who was their interpreter in Chinook Jargon and English.

Toketee ( pronounced TOKE-uh-tee ), is a Chinook Jargon word meaning " pretty " or " graceful ".

Prior to the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush and the Portage's role as a key component in the Douglas Road-the sheltered and fertile land of the Portage had been home to what are estimated to have been hundreds of quiggly holes ( kekuli, meaning " underneath " in the Chinook Jargon ), each of which had been a house with multiple residents.

* Larry Solum, " Jargon " ( blog entry ), 2004.

* Adorno, Theodor ( 1973 ), The Jargon of Authenticity