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• Knights of the Lambda Calculus n. A semi-mythical organization of wizardly LISP and Scheme hackers.
  The name refers to a mathematical formalism invented by Alonzo Church, with which LISP is intimately connected....
• LISP: [from `LISt Processing language', but mythically from `Lots of Irritating Superfluous Parentheses'] n.
  AI's mother tongue, a language based on the ideas of (a) variable-length lists and trees as fundamental data types, and (b) the interpretation of code as data and vice-versa....
• languages of choice: n. {C} and {LISP}. Nearly every hacker knows one of these, and most good ones are fluent in both.
  Smalltalk and Prolog are also popular in small but influential communities....
• LISP hackers do it in lambda functions.
• HCF: /H-C-F/ n. Mnemonic for `Halt and Catch Fire'
  any of several undocumented and semi-mythical machine instructions with destructive side-effects, supposedly included for test purposes on several well-known architectures going as far back as the IBM 360....
• Wizard Book: n. Hal Abelson's, Jerry Sussman's and Julie Sussman's "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" (MIT Press, 1984
  ISBN 0-262-01077-1), an excellent computer science text used in introductory courses at MIT....
• languages of choice n. C, C++, LISP, and Perl.
  Nearly every hacker knows one of C or LISP, and most good ones are fluent in both....
• LISP n. [from `LISt Processing language', but mythically from `Lots of Irritating Superfluous Parentheses'] AI's mother tongue
  a language based on the ideas of (a) variable-length lists and trees as fundamental data types, and (b) the interpretation of code as data and vice-versa....
• well-connected: adj. Said of a computer installation, asserts that it has reliable email links with the network and/or that it relays a large fraction of available {USENET} newsgroups.
  `Well-known' can be almost synonymous, but also implies that the site's name is familiar to many (due perhaps to an archive service or active USENET users)....