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2. The official name of the database language used by the old Pick Operating System, actually a sort of crufty, brain-damaged SQL with delusions of grandeur. The name permitted marketroid s to say Yes, and you can program our computers in ! to ignorant suit s without quite running afoul of the truth-in-advertising laws.
*** Eric Conspiracy
n. A shadowy group of mustachioed hackers named Eric first pinpointed as a sinister conspiracy by an infamous talk.bizarre posting ca. 1987; this was doubtless influenced by the numerous Eric jokes in the Monty Python oeuvre. There do indeed seem to be considerably more mustachioed Erics in hackerdom than the frequency of these three traits can account for unless they are correlated in some arcane way. Well-known examples include Eric Allman (he of the Allman style described under indent style ) and Erik Fair (co-author of NNTP); your editor has heard from more than a hundred others by email, and the organization line Eric Conspiracy Secret Laboratories now emanates regularly from more than one site. See the Eric Conspiracy Web Page at http://www.catb.org/~esr/ecsl/ for full details.
n. A shadowy group of mustachioed hackers named Eric first pinpointed as a sinister conspiracy by an infamous talk.bizarre posting ca. 1987; this was doubtless influenced by the numerous Eric jokes in the Monty Python oeuvre. There do indeed seem to be considerably more mustachioed Erics in hackerdom than the frequency of these three traits can account for unless they are correlated in some arcane way. Well-known examples include Eric Allman (he of the Allman style described under indent style ) and Erik Fair (co-author of NNTP).
*** Eris
/eris/ , n. The Greek goddess of Chaos, Discord, Confusion, and Things You Know Not Of; her name was latinized to Discordia and she was worshiped by that name in Rome. Not a very friendly deity in the Classical original, she was reinvented as a more benign personification of creative anarchy starting in 1959 by the adherents of Discordianism and has since been a semi-serious subject of veneration in several fringe cultures, including hackerdom. See Discordianism , Church of the SubGenius.
@ -850,7 +850,7 @@ n. (Also missile address ) The form used to register a site with the Usenet mapp
// , abbrev. [from SF fandom via Usenet; abbreviation for In My Humble Opinion ] IMHO, mixed-case C names should be avoided, as mistyping something in the wrong case can cause hard-to-detect errors and they look too Pascalish anyhow. Also seen in variant forms such as IMNSHO (In My Not-So-Humble Opinion) and IMAO (In My Arrogant Opinion).
*** INTERCAL
/int@rkal/ , n. [said by the authors to stand for Compiler Language With No Pronounceable Acronym ] A computer language designed by Don Woods and James Lyons in 1972. INTERCAL is purposely different from all other computer languages in all ways but one; it is purely a written language, being totally unspeakable. An excerpt from the INTERCAL Reference Manual will make the style of the language clear: It is a well-known and oft-demonstrated fact that a person whose work is incomprehensible is held in high esteem. For example, if one were to state that the simplest way to store a value of 65536 in a 32-bit INTERCAL variable is: DO:1 -#0$#256 any sensible programmer would say that that was absurd. Since this is indeed the simplest method, the programmer would be made to look foolish in front of his boss, who would of course have happened to turn up, as bosses are wont to do. The effect would be no less devastating for the programmer having been correct. INTERCAL has many other peculiar features designed to make it even more unspeakable. The Woods-Lyons implementation was actually used by many (well, at least several) people at Princeton. The language has been recently reimplemented as C-INTERCAL and is consequently enjoying an unprecedented level of unpopularity; there is even an alt.lang.intercal newsgroup devoted to the study and. .. appreciation of the language on Usenet. Inevitably, INTERCAL has a home page on the Web: http://www.catb.org/~esr/intercal/. An extended version, implemented in (what else?) Perl and adding object-oriented features, is rumored to exist. See also Befunge.
/int@rkal/ , n. [said by the authors to stand for Compiler Language With No Pronounceable Acronym ] A computer language designed by Don Woods and James Lyons in 1972. INTERCAL is purposely different from all other computer languages in all ways but one; it is purely a written language, being totally unspeakable. An excerpt from the INTERCAL Reference Manual will make the style of the language clear: It is a well-known and oft-demonstrated fact that a person whose work is incomprehensible is held in high esteem. For example, if one were to state that the simplest way to store a value of 65536 in a 32-bit INTERCAL variable is: DO:1 -#0$#256 any sensible programmer would say that that was absurd. Since this is indeed the simplest method, the programmer would be made to look foolish in front of his boss, who would of course have happened to turn up, as bosses are wont to do. The effect would be no less devastating for the programmer having been correct. INTERCAL has many other peculiar features designed to make it even more unspeakable. The Woods-Lyons implementation was actually used by many (well, at least several) people at Princeton. The language has been recently reimplemented as C-INTERCAL and is consequently enjoying an unprecedented level of unpopularity; there is even an alt.lang.intercal newsgroup devoted to the study and appreciation of the language on Usenet. See also Befunge.
*** IRC
/IRC/ , n. [Internet Relay Chat] A worldwide party line network that allows one to converse with others in real time. IRC is structured as a network of Internet servers, each of which accepts connections from client programs, one per user. The IRC community and the Usenet and MUD communities overlap to some extent, including both hackers and regular folks who have discovered the wonders of computer networks. Some Usenet jargon has been adopted on IRC, as have some conventions such as emoticon s. There is also a vigorous native jargon, represented in this lexicon by entries marked [IRC]. See also talk mode.
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3. In MUD circles, bamf is also used to refer to the act by which a MUD server sends a special notification to the MUD client to switch its connection to another server ( I'll set up the old site to just bamf people over to our new location. ).
4. Used by MUDders on occasion in a more general sense related to sense 3, to refer to directing someone to another location or resource ( A user was asking about some technobabble so I bamfed them to http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/.
4. Used by MUDders on occasion in a more general sense related to sense 3, to refer to directing someone to another location or resource (eg. A user was asking about XYZ so I bamfed them to https://zombo.com)
*** banana problem
n. [from the story of the little girl who said I know how to spell banana , but I don't know when to stop ]. Not knowing where or when to bring a production to a close (compare fencepost error ). One may say there is a banana problem of an algorithm with poorly defined or incorrect termination conditions, or in discussing the evolution of a design that may be succumbing to featuritis (see also creeping elegance , creeping featuritis ). See item 176 under HAKMEM , which describes a banana problem in a Dissociated Press implementation. Also, see one-banana problem for a superficially similar but unrelated usage.

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<p>2. The official name of the database language used by the old Pick Operating System, actually a sort of crufty, brain-damaged SQL with delusions of grandeur. The name permitted marketroid s to say Yes, and you can program our computers in ! to ignorant suit s without quite running afoul of the truth-in-advertising laws.</p>
<H4>Eric Conspiracy</H4>
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n. A shadowy group of mustachioed hackers named Eric first pinpointed as a sinister conspiracy by an infamous talk.bizarre posting ca. 1987; this was doubtless influenced by the numerous Eric jokes in the Monty Python oeuvre. There do indeed seem to be considerably more mustachioed Erics in hackerdom than the frequency of these three traits can account for unless they are correlated in some arcane way. Well-known examples include Eric Allman (he of the Allman style described under indent style ) and Erik Fair (co-author of NNTP); your editor has heard from more than a hundred others by email, and the organization line Eric Conspiracy Secret Laboratories now emanates regularly from more than one site. See the Eric Conspiracy Web Page at http://www.catb.org/~esr/ecsl/ for full details.
n. A shadowy group of mustachioed hackers named Eric first pinpointed as a sinister conspiracy by an infamous talk.bizarre posting ca. 1987; this was doubtless influenced by the numerous Eric jokes in the Monty Python oeuvre. There do indeed seem to be considerably more mustachioed Erics in hackerdom than the frequency of these three traits can account for unless they are correlated in some arcane way. Well-known examples include Eric Allman (he of the Allman style described under indent style ) and Erik Fair (co-author of NNTP).
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<H4>Eris</H4>
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<H4>INTERCAL</H4>
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/int@rkal/ , n. [said by the authors to stand for Compiler Language With No Pronounceable Acronym ] A computer language designed by Don Woods and James Lyons in 1972. INTERCAL is purposely different from all other computer languages in all ways but one; it is purely a written language, being totally unspeakable. An excerpt from the INTERCAL Reference Manual will make the style of the language clear: It is a well-known and oft-demonstrated fact that a person whose work is incomprehensible is held in high esteem. For example, if one were to state that the simplest way to store a value of 65536 in a 32-bit INTERCAL variable is: DO:1 -#0$#256 any sensible programmer would say that that was absurd. Since this is indeed the simplest method, the programmer would be made to look foolish in front of his boss, who would of course have happened to turn up, as bosses are wont to do. The effect would be no less devastating for the programmer having been correct. INTERCAL has many other peculiar features designed to make it even more unspeakable. The Woods-Lyons implementation was actually used by many (well, at least several) people at Princeton. The language has been recently reimplemented as C-INTERCAL and is consequently enjoying an unprecedented level of unpopularity; there is even an alt.lang.intercal newsgroup devoted to the study and. .. appreciation of the language on Usenet. Inevitably, INTERCAL has a home page on the Web: http://www.catb.org/~esr/intercal/. An extended version, implemented in (what else?) Perl and adding object-oriented features, is rumored to exist. See also Befunge.
/int@rkal/ , n. [said by the authors to stand for Compiler Language With No Pronounceable Acronym ] A computer language designed by Don Woods and James Lyons in 1972. INTERCAL is purposely different from all other computer languages in all ways but one; it is purely a written language, being totally unspeakable. An excerpt from the INTERCAL Reference Manual will make the style of the language clear: It is a well-known and oft-demonstrated fact that a person whose work is incomprehensible is held in high esteem. For example, if one were to state that the simplest way to store a value of 65536 in a 32-bit INTERCAL variable is: DO:1 -#0$#256 any sensible programmer would say that that was absurd. Since this is indeed the simplest method, the programmer would be made to look foolish in front of his boss, who would of course have happened to turn up, as bosses are wont to do. The effect would be no less devastating for the programmer having been correct. INTERCAL has many other peculiar features designed to make it even more unspeakable. The Woods-Lyons implementation was actually used by many (well, at least several) people at Princeton. The language has been recently reimplemented as C-INTERCAL and is consequently enjoying an unprecedented level of unpopularity; there is even an alt.lang.intercal newsgroup devoted to the study and appreciation of the language on Usenet. See also Befunge.
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<H4>IRC</H4>
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<p>3. In MUD circles, bamf is also used to refer to the act by which a MUD server sends a special notification to the MUD client to switch its connection to another server ( I'll set up the old site to just bamf people over to our new location. ). </p>
<p>4. Used by MUDders on occasion in a more general sense related to sense 3, to refer to directing someone to another location or resource ( A user was asking about some technobabble so I bamfed them to http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/.</p>
<p>4. Used by MUDders on occasion in a more general sense related to sense 3, to refer to directing someone to another location or resource (eg. A user was asking about XYZ so I bamfed them to https://zombo.com)</p>
<H4>banana problem</H4>
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n. [from the story of the little girl who said I know how to spell banana , but I don't know when to stop ]. Not knowing where or when to bring a production to a close (compare fencepost error ). One may say there is a banana problem of an algorithm with poorly defined or incorrect termination conditions, or in discussing the evolution of a design that may be succumbing to featuritis (see also creeping elegance , creeping featuritis ). See item 176 under HAKMEM , which describes a banana problem in a Dissociated Press implementation. Also, see one-banana problem for a superficially similar but unrelated usage.

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interrupts locked out
adj. When someone is ignoring you. In a restaurant, after several fruitless
attempts to get the waitress's attention, a hacker might well observe She
must have interrupts locked out. The synonym interrupts disabled is also
adj. When someone is ignoring you. The synonym interrupts disabled is also
common. Variations abound; to have one's interrupt mask bit set and
interrupts masked out are also heard. See also spl.