waldo /wol'doh/ n.
[From Robert A. Heinlein's story
"Waldo"] 1. A mechanical agent, such as a gripper arm,
controlled by a human limb. When these were developed for the
nuclear industry in the mid-1940s they were named after the
invention described by Heinlein in the story, which he wrote in
1942. Now known by the more generic term `telefactoring', this
technology is of intense interest to NASA for tasks like space
station maintenance. 2. At Harvard (particularly by Tom Cheatham
and students), this is used instead of foobar as a
metasyntactic variable and general nonsense word. See foo,
bar, foobar, quux.
[From Robert A. Heinlein's story
"Waldo"] 1. A mechanical agent, such as a gripper arm,
controlled by a human limb. When these were developed for the
nuclear industry in the mid-1940s they were named after the
invention described by Heinlein in the story, which he wrote in
1942. Now known by the more generic term `telefactoring', this
technology is of intense interest to NASA for tasks like space
station maintenance. 2. At Harvard (particularly by Tom Cheatham
and students), this is used instead of foobar as a
metasyntactic variable and general nonsense word. See foo,
bar, foobar, quux.
Related:
- waldo: /wol'doh/ [From Robert A. Heinlein's story "Waldo"]
1.
A mechanical agent, such as a gripper arm, controlled... - 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... - 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... - bar /bar/ n.
1. [very common] The second
metasyntactic variable,
after foo and before ...." 2. Often appended to foo... - bar: /bar/ n. 1. The second {metasyntactic variable},
after {foo} and before {baz}. "Suppose we have... - quux /kwuhks/ n.
[Mythically, from the Latin
semi-deponent verb quuxo,
quuxare, quuxandum iri; noun form variously `quux'... - quux: /kwuhks/ [Mythically, from the Latin semi-deponent verb
quuxo,
quuxare, quuxandum iri; noun form variously `quux'... - FOO 1. [from the Yiddish 'feh' or Anglo-Saxon 'fooey'] interj.
Term of disgust. 2. [from FUBAR, WWII acronym, often... - baz: /baz/ n. 1. The third {metasyntactic variable} "Suppose we
have three functions:
FOO, BAR, and BAZ. FOO calls BAR, which calls BAZ...
From the same category:
- Zero-One-Infinity Rule prov.
"Allow none of foo,
one of foo, or any number of foo." A rule of thumb... - hackish /hak'ish/ adj.
(also hackishness n.) 1. Said
of something that is or involves a hack.
2. Of or pertaining to hackers or the hacker subculture... - clover key n.
[Mac users] See feature key... - Tinkerbell program n.
[Great Britain] A monitoring program
used to scan incoming network calls and generate alerts when calls
are received from particular sites,
or when logins are attempted... - elegant adj.
[common; from mathematical usage]
Combining simplicity,
power, and a certain ineffable grace of design....
