thud n.
1. Yet another metasyntactic variable (see
foo). It is reported that at CMU from the mid-1970s the
canonical series of these was `foo', `bar', `thud', `blat'.
2. Rare term for the hash character, `#' (ASCII 0100011). See
ASCII for other synonyms.
1. Yet another metasyntactic variable (see
foo). It is reported that at CMU from the mid-1970s the
canonical series of these was `foo', `bar', `thud', `blat'.
2. Rare term for the hash character, `#' (ASCII 0100011). See
ASCII for other synonyms.
Related:
- thud n.
1. Yet another metasyntactic variable (see
foo).
It is reported that at CMU from the mid-1970s the ... - 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... - blat n.
1. Syn. blast, sense 1. 2.
See thud... - gorp: /gorp/ [CMU: perhaps from the canonical hiker's food,
Good Old Raisins and Peanuts] Another {metasyntactic... - foo /foo/
1. interj. Term of disgust. 2. [very
common] Used very generally as a sample name for absolutely
anything,
esp. programs and files (esp. scratch files). 3. First... - bar /bar/ n.
1. [very common] The second
metasyntactic variable,
after foo and before ...." 2. Often appended to foo... - splat n.
1. Name used in many places (DEC, IBM, and
others) for the asterisk (*) character (ASCII 0101010).
This may derive from the `squashed-bug' appearance... - qux: /kwuhks/ The fourth of the standard {metasyntactic
variable},
after {baz} and before the quu(u...)x series. See... - amper n.
Common abbreviation for the name of the ampersand
(`&',
ASCII 0100110) character. See ASCII for other synonyms...
From the same category:
- finger-pointing syndrome n.
All-too-frequent result of
bugs,
esp. in new or experimental configurations. The hardware... - dup killer /d[y]oop kill'r/ n.
[FidoNet] Software that is supposed to detect and... - FTP /F-T-P/, not /fit'ip/
1. [techspeak] n. The
File Transfer Protocol for transmitting files between systems on
the Internet.
2. vt. To beam a file using the File Transfer Protocol... - NANA //
[Usenet] The newsgroups news.admin.net-abuse.*,
devoted to fighting spam and network abuse. Each individual... - demoscene /dem'oh-seen/
[also `demo scene'] A culture of
multimedia hackers located primarily in Scandinavia and northern
Europe.
Demoscene folklore recounts that when old-time warez...
