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• ADVENT /ad'vent/ n. The prototypical computer adventure game
  first designed by Will Crowther on the PDP-10 in the mid-1970s as an attempt at computer-refereed fantasy gaming, and expanded into a puzzle-oriented game by Don Woods at Stanford in 1976....
• Befunge n. A worthy companion to INTERCAL; a computer language family which escapes the quotidian limitation of linear control flow and embraces program counters flying through multiple dimensions with exotic topologies.
  Sadly, the Befunge home page has vanished, but a Befunge version of the hello world program is at http...
• COME FROM n. A semi-mythical language construct dual to the `go to'
  COME FROM <label> would cause the referenced label to act as a sort of trapdoor, so that if the program ever reached it control would quietly and automagically be transferred to the statement following the COME FROM....
• etrocomputing /ret'-roh-k*m-pyoo'ting/ n. Refers to emulations of way-behind-the-state-of-the-art hardware or software, or implementations of never-was-state-of-the-a
  esp. if such implementations are elaborate practical jokes and/or parodies, written mostly for hack value, of more `serious' designs....
• write-only language n. A language with syntax (or semantics) sufficiently dense and bizarre that any routine of significant size is automatically write-only code.
  A sobriquet applied occasionally to C and often to APL, though INTERCAL and TECO certainly deserve it more....
• hacker humor A distinctive style of shared intellectual humor found among hackers, having the following marked characteristic
  1. Fascination with form-vs.-content jokes, paradoxes, and humor having to do with confusion of metalevels (see meta)....
• TeX /tekh/ n. An extremely powerful macro-based text formatter written by Donald E.
  Knuth, very popular in the computer-science community (it is good enough to have displaced Unix troff, the other favored formatter, even at many Unix installations)....
• etrocomputing: /ret'-roh-k*m-pyoo'ting/ n. Refers to emulations of way-behind-the-state-of-the-art hardware or software, or implementations of never-was-state-of-the-a
  esp. if such implementations are elaborate practical jokes and/or parodies, written mostly for {hack value}, of more `serious' designs....
• Pascal n. An Algol-descended language designed by Niklaus Wirth on the CDC 6600 around 1967-68 as an instructional tool for elementary programming.
  This language, designed primarily to keep students from shooting themselves in the foot and thus extremely restrictive from a general-purpose-programming point of view, was later promoted as a general-purpose tool and, in fact, became the ancestor of a large family of languages including Modula-2 and Ada (see also bondage-and-discipline l summed up by a devastating (and, in its deadpan way, screamingly funny) 1981 paper by Brian Kernighan (of K&...