glark /glark/ vt.
To figure something out from context.
"The System III manuals are pretty poor, but you can generally
glark the meaning from context." Interestingly, the word was
originally `glork'; the context was "This gubblick contains many
nonsklarkish English flutzpahs, but the overall pluggandisp can be
glorked [sic] from context" (David Moser, quoted by Douglas
Hofstadter in his "Metamagical Themas" column in the January
1981 "Scientific American"). It is conjectured that hacker
usage mutated the verb to `glark' because glork was already
an established jargon term (some hackers do report using the
original term). Compare grok, zen.
To figure something out from context.
"The System III manuals are pretty poor, but you can generally
glark the meaning from context." Interestingly, the word was
originally `glork'; the context was "This gubblick contains many
nonsklarkish English flutzpahs, but the overall pluggandisp can be
glorked [sic] from context" (David Moser, quoted by Douglas
Hofstadter in his "Metamagical Themas" column in the January
1981 "Scientific American"). It is conjectured that hacker
usage mutated the verb to `glark' because glork was already
an established jargon term (some hackers do report using the
original term). Compare grok, zen.
Related:
- glark: /glark/ vt. To figure something out from context.
"The System III manuals are pretty poor, but you... - This sentence has several non-skarklish English flutzpahs,
but the overall grubble can be glorked from context... - glork: /glork/ 1. interj. Term of mild surprise, usually tinged with
outrage,
as when one attempts to save the results of two hours... - whack: v. According to arch-hacker James Gosling, to ".
modify a program with no idea whatsoever how it... - canonical adj.
[very common; historically, `according
to religious law'] The usual or standard state or manner of
something.
This word has a somewhat more technical meaning in... - glork /glork/
1. interj. Term of mild surprise, usually
tinged with outrage,
as when one attempts to save the results of two... - grok: /grok/, var. /grohk/ [from the novel "Stranger in
a Strange Land",
by Robert A. Heinlein, where it is a Martian word ... - grok /grok/, var. /grohk/ vt.
[from the novel
"Stranger in a Strange Land",
by Robert A. Heinlein, where it is a Martian word... - English: 1. n.,obs. The source code for a program, which may be in
any language,
as opposed to the linkable or executable binary ...
