:backspace and overstrike: interj. Whoa! Back up. Used to suggest
that someone just said or did something wrong. Common among
APL programmers.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
that someone just said or did something wrong. Common among
APL programmers.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Related:
- backspace and overstrike interj.
[rare] Whoa! Back up.
Used to suggest that someone just said or did something... - spin: vi. Equivalent to {buzz}. More common among C and UNIX
programmers.
The AI Hackers... - line starve: [MIT] 1. vi. To feed paper through a printer the
wrong way by one line (most printers can't do this).
On a display terminal, to move the cursor up to... - berklix: /berk'liks/ n.,adj. [contraction of `Berkeley UNIX'] See
{BSD}.
Not used at Berkeley itself. May be more common among... - control-C: vi. 1. "Stop whatever you are doing." From the
interrupt character used on many operating systems to abort a
running program.
Considered silly. 2. interj. Among BSD UNIX hackers... - loop through: vt. To process each element of a list of things.
"Hold on, I've got to loop through my paper mail."... - rape: vt. 1. To {screw} someone or something, violently;
in particular, to destroy a program or information... - feetch feetch: /feech feech/ interj. If someone tells you about
some new improvement to a program,
you might respond: "Feetch, feetch!" The meaning... - stale pointer bug: n. Synonym for {aliasing bug} used esp.
among microcomputer hackers. -- The AI Hackers...
