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• If you want X, you know where to find it. There is a legend that Dennis Ritchie
  inventor of C, once responded to demands for features resembling those of what at the time was a much more popular language by observing "If you want PL/I, you know where to find it....
• RETURN An experience of sheer terror. Here's some advice for when you want to return goods to their place of purchase.
  - Find the receipt. Okay, so you only bought your product X yesterday, the shop you bought it from probably only sells an X once in a blue moon and the shopkeeper in question has known you personally for a period of decades....
• Ada:: n. A {{Pascal}}-descended language that has been made mandatory for Department of Defense software projects by the Pentagon.
  Hackers are nearly unanimous in observing that, technically, it is precisely what one might expect given that kind of endorsement by fia...
• alk mode n. A feature supported by Unix, ITS, and some other OSes that allows two or more logged-in users to set up a real-time on-line conversation.
  It combines the immediacy of talking with all the precision (and verbosity) that written language entails....
• xyzzy: /X-Y-Z-Z-Y/, /X-Y-ziz'ee/, /ziz'ee/, or /ik-ziz'ee/ [from the ADVENT game] adj.
  The {canonical} `magic word'. This comes from {ADVENT}, in which the idea is to explore an underground cave with many rooms and to collect the treasures you find there....
• Classic C: /klas'ik C/ [a play on `Coke Classic'] n.
  The C programming language as defined in the first edition of {K&R}, with some small additions....
• Frustration is not having anyone to blame but yourself.
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• Good morning. For those of you who don't know me, I am not Dr.
  X; I am Dr. X's representative on Earth....
• Ada n. A Pascal-descended language that has been made mandatory for Department of Defense software projects by the Pentagon.
  Hackers are nearly unanimous in observing that, technically, it is precisely what one might expect given that kind of endorsement by fia...