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• gensym: /jen'sim/ [from MacLISP for `generated symbol'] 1.
  v. To invent a new name for something temporary, in such a way that the name is almost certainly not in conflict with one already in use....
• BNF /B-N-F/ n. 1. [techspeak] Acronym for `Backus Normal Form' (often incorrectly expanded as `Backus-Naur Form')
  a metasyntactic notation used to specify the syntax of programming languages, command sets, and the like....
• accumulator n. obs. 1. Archaic term for a register.
  On-line use of it as a synonym for `register' is a fairly reliable indication that the user has been around for quite a while and/or that the architecture under discussion is quite old....
• andom adj. 1. Unpredictable (closest to mathematical definition)
  weird. "The system's been behaving pretty randomly....
• awk /awk/ 1. n. [Unix techspeak] An interpreted language for massaging text data developed by Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan (the name derives from their initials).
  It is characterized by C-like syntax, a declaration-free approach to variable typing and declarations, associative arrays, and field-oriented text processing....
• BUAF: // [abbreviation, from alt.fan.warlord] n. Big Ugly ASCII Font -- a special form of {ASCII art}.
  Various programs exist for rendering text strings into block, bloob, and pseudo-script fonts in cells between four and six character cells on a side...
• BUAF // n. [abbreviation, from alt.fan.warlord] Big Ugly ASCII Font -- a special form of ASCII art.
  Various programs exist for rendering text strings into block, bloob, and pseudo-script fonts in cells between four and six character cells on a side...
• Computer generated voices:) 1: I didn't expect an answering machine.
  2: Nobody expects an answering machine. 1: Our chief use is to get your name....
• crufty: /kruhf'tee/ [origin unknown; poss. from `crusty'] adj.
  1. Poorly built, possibly over-complex. The {canonical} example is "This is standard old crufty {DEC} software"....