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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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.

Jargon babbling includes strings of such sounds ; this type of babbling uses intonation but doesn't convey meaning.

It also includes PDA Emulator and Windows versions of the Jargon Reader deployment products so that developers can run applications as they are being developed to see how they look and behave.

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.

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 Jargon File states that the word was coined around 1975 at MIT.

Jargon constantly tries to explain to them the benefits of owning legless dogs, such as: they never run away, you never have to walk them, they're safe around children, etc.

The D4 Framing format that is referenced above is actually more of a marketable term, adopted by " techno Jargon " to simplify what is actually called Superframe Framing Format, an embedded 12 bit framing code.

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.

*" Understanding Jargon: A Short Bibliography " by Philip E. Agre

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

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

The term " advergames " was coined in January 2000 by Anthony Giallourakis, and later mentioned by Wired's " Jargon Watch " column in 2001.

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 ".

Beckey notes that " Many names were derived from Chinook Jargon, mostly applied by the United States Forest Service from 1910 to 1940 ...."

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

According to the Jargon File, as well as Gibson's own acknowledgements, the term ICE was originally coined by Tom Maddox.

Most Clatsops spoke Chinook Jargon and some spoke a dialect of Nehalem, by the time Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery made contact with them.

* Jargon File Koans compiled by Eric S. Raymond

They communicated by the Mobilian Jargon or French.

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.

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

According to the Jargon File, Smoking clover is a computer display hack, originally created by Bill Gosper.