Related:

• Datamation /day`t*-may'sh*n/ n. A magazine that many hackers assume all suits read.
  Used to question an unbelieved quote, as in "Did you read that in `Datamation?...
• COBOL: /koh'bol/ [COmmon Business-Oriented Language] n.
  (Synonymous with {evil}.) A weak, verbose, and flabby language used by {card walloper}s to do boring mindless things on {dinosaur} mainframes....
• YAFIYGI: /yaf'ee-y*-gee/ adj. [coined in response to WYSIWYG] Describes the command-oriented ed/vi/nroff/TeX style of word processing or other user interface, the opposite of {WYSIWYG}.
  Stands for "You asked for it, you got it", because what you actually asked for is often not apparent until long after it is too late to do anything about it....
• Real Programmer n. [indirectly, from the book "Real Men Don't Eat Quiche"] A particular sub-variety of hacke
  one possessed of a flippant attitude toward complexity that is arrogant even when justified by experience....
• berklix: /berk'liks/ n.,adj. [contraction of `Berkeley UNIX'] See {BSD}.
  Not used at Berkeley itself. May be more common among {suit}s attempting to sound like cognoscenti than among hackers, who usually just say `BSD'....
• Stupids: n. Term used by {samurai} for the {suit}s who employ them
  uccinctly expresses an attitude at least as common, though usually better disguised, among other subcultures of hackers....
• COME FROM n. A semi-mythical language construct dual to the `go to'
  COME FROM <label> would cause the referenced label to act as a sort of trapdoor, so that if the program ever reached it control would quietly and automagically be transferred to the statement following the COME FROM....
• wannabee /won'*-bee/ n. (also, more plausibly, spelled `wannabe') [from a term recently used to describe Madonna fans who dress, talk, and act like their idol
  prob. originally from biker slang] A would-be hacker....
• Pascal n. An Algol-descended language designed by Niklaus Wirth on the CDC 6600 around 1967-68 as an instructional tool for elementary programming.
  This language, designed primarily to keep students from shooting themselves in the foot and thus extremely restrictive from a general-purpose-programming point of view, was later promoted as a general-purpose tool and, in fact, became the ancestor of a large family of languages including Modula-2 and Ada (see also bondage-and-discipline l summed up by a devastating (and, in its deadpan way, screamingly funny) 1981 paper by Brian Kernighan (of K&...