:2: infix. In translation software written by hackers, infix 2 often
represents the syllable *to* with the connotation
`translate to': as in dvi2ps (DVI to PostScript), int2string
(integer to string), and texi2roff (Texinfo to [nt]roff).
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
represents the syllable *to* with the connotation
`translate to': as in dvi2ps (DVI to PostScript), int2string
(integer to string), and texi2roff (Texinfo to [nt]roff).
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Related:
- 2 infix.
In translation software written by hackers,
infix 2 often represents the syllable to with the... - h: [from SF fandom] infix. A method of `marking' common words,
i.e., calling attention to the fact that they are being... - NeWS: /nee'wis/, /n[y]oo'is/ or /n[y]ooz/ [acronym;
the `Network Window System'] n. The road not taken... - drain: [IBM] v. Syn. for {flush} (sense 2). Has a connotation
of finality about it;
one speaks of draining a device before taking it... - hardwired: adj. 1. In software, syn. for {hardcoded}.
2. By extension, anything that is not modifiable... - kiboze: [USENET] v. To {grep} the USENET news for a string,
especially with the intention of posting a follow-up... - grovel: vi. 1. To work interminably and without apparent progress.
Often used transitively with `over' or `through'. ... - dumbed down: adj. Simplified, with a strong connotation of
*over*simplified.
Often, a {marketroid} will insist that the interfaces... - reality check: n. 1. The simplest kind of test of software or
hardware;
doing the equivalent of asking it what 2 + 2 is ...
