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• Knights of the Lambda Calculus n. A semi-mythical organization of wizardly LISP and Scheme hackers.
  The name refers to a mathematical formalism invented by Alonzo Church, with which LISP is intimately connected....
• languages of choice n. C, C++, LISP, and Perl.
  Nearly every hacker knows one of C or LISP, and most good ones are fluent in both....
• LISP hackers do it in lambda functions.
• LISP: [from `LISt Processing language', but mythically from `Lots of Irritating Superfluous Parentheses'] n.
  AI's mother tongue, a language based on the ideas of (a) variable-length lists and trees as fundamental data types, and (b) the interpretation of code as data and vice-versa....
• LISP n. [from `LISt Processing language', but mythically from `Lots of Irritating Superfluous Parentheses'] AI's mother tongue
  a language based on the ideas of (a) variable-length lists and trees as fundamental data types, and (b) the interpretation of code as data and vice-versa....
• languages of choice: n. {C} and {LISP}. Nearly every hacker knows one of these, and most good ones are fluent in both.
  Smalltalk and Prolog are also popular in small but influential communities....
• quine /kwi:n/ n. [from the name of the logician Willard van Orman Quine, via Douglas Hofstadter] A program that generates a copy of its own source text as its complete output.
  Devising the shortest possible quine in some given programming language is a common hackish amusement....
• eraflop club /te'r*-flop kluhb/ n. [FLOP = Floating Point Operation] A mythical association of people who consume outrageous amounts of computer time in order to produce a few simple pictures of glass balls with intricate ray-tracing techniques.
  Caltech professor James Kajiya is said to have been the founder....
• HCF: /H-C-F/ n. Mnemonic for `Halt and Catch Fire'
  any of several undocumented and semi-mythical machine instructions with destructive side-effects, supposedly included for test purposes on several well-known architectures going as far back as the IBM 360....