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.

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

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

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

The adjective associated with hacker is " hackish " ( see the Jargon file ).

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

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

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.

The most common cases refer to how bytes are ordered within a single 16 -, 32 -, or 64-bit word, and endianness is then the same as byte order .< ref > For hardware, the Jargon File also reports the less common expression byte sex.

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

* Some text in this article was taken from The Jargon File entry on " TWENEX ", which is in the public domain.

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

One version is that it is the Chinook Jargon word for " bob-tailed horse.

The word ' Mego ' is an acronym referring to " My Eyes Glaze Over ", an expression attributed to futurologist Herman Kahn ( the use of the term in hacker-culture is documented in the Jargon File ).

The people living near the post office did not want it moved to the railroad station, so a new office was established at the station with the name Lemati, which is a Chinook Jargon word that means " mountain ".

Some scholars, such as James Crawford, have argued that Mobilian Jargon has its origins in the linguistically diverse environment following the establishment of the French colony of Louisiana.

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 ".

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 Jargon File also mentions that German hackers have developed their own versions of the blinkenlights poster, in fractured English:

Out of hacker culture, and especially the artificial intelligence community at MIT, there have sprung a number of humorous short stories about computer science dubbed hacker koans ; most of these are recorded in an appendix to the Jargon File, where they are called AI Koans.

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.

Versions of Jargon Reader have been written for the following client platforms:

Other scholars have suggested that the data in Swanton's vocabulary is Mobilian Jargon.