:waldo: /wol'doh/ [From Robert A. Heinlein's story "Waldo"]
1. A mechanical agent, such as a gripper arm, controlled by a human
limb. When these were developed for the nuclear industry in the
mid-1940s they were named after the invention described by Heinlein
in the story, which he wrote in 1942. Now known by the more
generic term `telefactoring', this technology is of intense
interest to NASA for tasks like space station maintenance. 2. At
Harvard (particularly by Tom Cheatham and students), this is used
instead of {foobar} as a metasyntactic variable and general
nonsense word. See {foo}, {bar}, {foobar}, {quux}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
1. A mechanical agent, such as a gripper arm, controlled by a human
limb. When these were developed for the nuclear industry in the
mid-1940s they were named after the invention described by Heinlein
in the story, which he wrote in 1942. Now known by the more
generic term `telefactoring', this technology is of intense
interest to NASA for tasks like space station maintenance. 2. At
Harvard (particularly by Tom Cheatham and students), this is used
instead of {foobar} as a metasyntactic variable and general
nonsense word. See {foo}, {bar}, {foobar}, {quux}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Related:
- waldo /wol'doh/ n.
[From Robert A. Heinlein's story
"Waldo"] 1
A mechanical agent, such as a gripper arm, controlled... - foo /foo/
1. interj. Term of disgust. 2. [very
common] Used very generally as a sample name for absolutely
anything
esp. programs and files (esp. scratch files). 3. First... - metasyntactic variable n.
A name used in examples and
understood to stand for whatever thing is under discussion
or any random member of a class of things under... - bar: /bar/ n. 1. The second {metasyntactic variable}
after {foo} and before {baz}. "Suppose we have... - quux: /kwuhks/ [Mythically, from the Latin semi-deponent verb
quuxo
quuxare, quuxandum iri; noun form variously `quux'... - bar /bar/ n.
1. [very common] The second
metasyntactic variable
after foo and before ...." 2. Often appended to foo... - qux: /kwuhks/ The fourth of the standard {metasyntactic
variable}
after {baz} and before the quu(u...)x series. See... - thud: n. 1. Yet another {metasyntactic variable} (see {foo})
It is reported that at CMU from the mid-1970s the canonical... - quux /kwuhks/ n.
[Mythically, from the Latin
semi-deponent verb quuxo
quuxare, quuxandum iri; noun form variously `quux'...
