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 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.

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

John Roche, a contemporary critic, claimed that the Moravians " commonly broke into some disconnected Jargon, which they often passed upon the vulgar, ' as the exuberant and resistless Evacuations of the Spirit '".

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.

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 ".

The name " Tukwila " comes from the Chinook Jargon word for " nut " or " hazelnut ", referring to the lush forests of hazelnut trees which grew in the area.

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

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

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 Jargon File makes a distinction between deep magic, which refers to ( code based on ) esoteric theoretical knowledge ; black magic, which refers to ( code based on ) techniques that appear to work but which lack a theoretical explanation ; and heavy wizardry, which refers to ( code based on ) obscure or undocumented intricacies of particular hardware or software.

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.

John Sibley reported that they spoke their own language which was different from neighboring languages in addition to Mobilian Jargon.

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

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.

* potlatch-a social gathering ; a Native American festival during which the chief gives away his possessions ( from Chinook Jargon )

* The Jargon File, which lists some of the phrases here.

He was an interpreter in the Vancouver police court from 1904 to 1936, speaking English, Cantonese, Hakka, and also the Chinook Jargon which he had learned as a child at Port Douglas.

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.