Yu-Shiang Whole Fish /yoo-shyang hohl fish/ n. obs.
The
character gamma (extended SAIL ASCII 0001001), which with a loop in
its tail looks like a little fish swimming down the page. The term
is actually the name of a Chinese dish in which a fish is cooked
whole (not parsed) and covered with Yu-Shiang (or Yu-Hsiang)
sauce. Usage: primarily by people on the MIT LISP Machine, which
could display this character on the screen. Tends to elicit
incredulity from people who hear about it second-hand.
The
character gamma (extended SAIL ASCII 0001001), which with a loop in
its tail looks like a little fish swimming down the page. The term
is actually the name of a Chinese dish in which a fish is cooked
whole (not parsed) and covered with Yu-Shiang (or Yu-Hsiang)
sauce. Usage: primarily by people on the MIT LISP Machine, which
could display this character on the screen. Tends to elicit
incredulity from people who hear about it second-hand.
Related:
- Yu-Shiang Whole Fish: /yoo-shyang hohl fish/ n. obs.
The character gamma (extended SAIL ASCII 0001001)... - oriental food n.
Hackers display an intense tropism
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especially Chinese, and especially of the spicier... - oriental food:: n. Hackers display an intense tropism towards
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especially Chinese, and especially of the spicier ... - 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... - 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... - 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... - TECO /tee'koh/ n.,v. obs.
1. [originally an acronym for
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later, `Text Editor and COrrector'] n. A text editor... - cokebottle: /kohk'bot-l/ n. Any very unusual character,
particularly one you can't type because it it isn't... - cdr /ku'dr/ or /kuh'dr/ vt.
[from LISP] To skip past
the first item from a list of things (generalized from the LISP
operation on binary tree structures,
which returns a list consisting of all but the first...
From the same category:
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1. [common] To copy a large array of
bits from one part of a computer's memory to another part,
particularly when the memory is being used to determine... - vaxism /vak'sizm/ n.
A piece of code that exhibits
vaxocentrism in critical areas.
Compare PC-ism, unixism... - marbles pl.n.
[from mainstream "lost all his/her
marbles"] The minimum needed to build your way further up some
hierarchy of tools or abstractions.
After a bad system crash, you need to... - throwaway account n.
1. An inexpensive Internet account
purchased on a legitimate ISP for the the sole purpose of
spewing spam.
2. An inexpensive Internet account obtained for ... - payware /pay'weir/ n.
Commercial software.
Oppose shareware or freeware...
