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• excl /eks'kl/ n. Abbreviation for `exclamation point'. See bang, shriek, ASCII.
• bang 1. n. Common spoken name for ! (ASCII 0100001), especially when used in pronouncing a bang path in spoken hackish.
  In elder days this was considered a CMUish usage, with MIT and Stanford hackers preferring excl or shriek...
• bang: 1. n. Common spoken name for `!' (ASCII 0100001), especially when used in pronouncing a {bang path} in spoken hackish.
  In {elder days} this was considered a CMUish usage, with MIT and Stanford hackers preferring {excl} or {shriek}...
• excl: /eks'kl/ n. Abbreviation for `exclamation point'.
  See {bang}, {shriek}, {{ASCII}}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• metasyntactic variable n. A name used in examples and understood to stand for whatever thing is under discussion, or any random member of a class of things under discussion.
  The word foo is the canonical example. To avoid confusion, hackers never (well, hardly ever) use `foo' or other words like it as permanent names for anything....
• ASCII /as'kee/ n. [originally an acronym (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) but now merely conventional] The predominant character set encoding of present-day computers.
  The standard version uses 7 bits for each character, whereas most earlier codes (including early drafts of of ASCII prior to June 1961) used fewer....
• fan n. Without qualification, indicates a fan of science fiction, especially one who goes to cons and tends to hang out with other fans.
  Many hackers are fans, so this term has been imported from fannish slang...
• fan: n. Without qualification, indicates a fan of science fiction, especially one who goes to {con}s and tends to hang out with other fans.
  Many hackers are fans, so this term has been imported from fannish slang...
• grind vt. 1. [MIT and Berkeley; now rare] To prettify hardcopy of code, especially LISP code, by reindenting lines, printing keywords and comments in distinct fonts (if available), etc.
  This usage was associated with the MacLISP community and is now rare...