Related:

• TMRC /tmerk'/ n. The Tech Model Railroad Club at MIT, one of the wellsprings of hacker culture.
  The 1959 "Dictionary of the TMRC Language" compiled by Peter Samson included several terms that became basics of the hackish vocabulary (see esp....
• QOTD: All I want is a little more than I'll ever get.
• Riker: "The point is that I didn't get the chance." Ro
  'The point is', with all due respect, Commander, you are trying to turn me into your idea of the model officer....
• 0015 Ever change the value of 4? 0016 ... Unintentionally?
  0017 ... In a language other than Fortran? -- from THE HACKER TEST...
• Change your language to Finnish.
• TeX /tekh/ n. An extremely powerful macro-based text formatter written by Donald E.
  Knuth, very popular in the computer-science community (it is good enough to have displaced Unix troff, the other favored formatter, even at many Unix installations)....
• C++ /C'-pluhs-pluhs/ n. Designed by Bjarne Stroustrup of AT&
  T Bell Labs as a successor to C. Now one of the languages of choice, although many hackers still grumble that it is the successor to either Algol 68 or Ada (depending on generation), and a prime example of second-system effect....
• break-even point: n. in the process of implementing a new computer language, the point at which the language is sufficiently effective that one can implement the language in itself.
  That is, for a new language called, hypothetically, FOOGOL, one has reached break-even when one can write a demonstration compiler for FOOGOL in FOOGOL, discard the original implementation language, and thereafter use working versions of FOOGOL to develop newer ones....
• Homosexuality is the best all around cover an agent ever had.