bible n.
1. One of a small number of fundamental source
books such as Knuth, K&R, or the Cam
most detailed and authoritative reference for a particular
language, operating system, or other complex software system.
1. One of a small number of fundamental source
books such as Knuth, K&R, or the Cam
most detailed and authoritative reference for a particular
language, operating system, or other complex software system.
Related:
- bible: n. 1. One of a small number of fundamental source books
such as {Knuth} and {K&R}.
2. The most detailed and authoritative reference... - heavy wizardry n.
Code or designs that trade on a
particularly intimate knowledge or experience of a particular
operating system or language or complex application interface.
Distinguished from deep magic, which trades more on... - heavy wizardry: n. Code or designs that trade on a particularly
intimate knowledge or experience of a particular operating system
or language or complex application interface.
Distinguished from {deep magic}, which trades more... - system n.
1. The supervisor program or OS on a computer.
2. The entire computer system, including input/output... - system: n. 1. The supervisor program or OS on a computer.
2. The entire computer system, including input/output... - TeX /tekh/ n.
An extremely powerful macro-based text formatter written by
Donald E.
Knuth, very popular in the computer-science community... - wizard: n. 1. A person who knows how a complex piece of software
or hardware works (that is,
who {grok}s it); esp. someone who can find and fix... - This is UNIX, the most wellknown programming language/ operating system,
you've never heard of... - chain
1. vi. [orig. from BASIC's CHAIN statement]
To hand off execution to a child or successor without going
through the OS command interpreter that invoked it.
The state of the parent program is lost and there...
From the same category:
- laundromat n.
Syn. disk farm;
see washing machine... - gurfle /ger'fl/ interj.
An expression of shocked
disbelief.
"He said we have to recode this thing in FORTRAN by... - Parkinson's Law of Data prov.
"Data expands to fill
the space available for storage";
buying more memory encourages the use of more memory... - chrome n.
[from automotive slang via wargaming] Showy features
added to attract users but contributing little or nothing to
the power of a system.
"The 3D icons in Motif are just chrome,... - death code n.
A routine whose job is to set everything in
the computer -
registers, memory, flags, everything -- to zero, ...
