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LINGUISTS do it with their tongues.
Linguists do it with words!
link-dead: [MUD] adj. Said of a {MUD} character who has frozen in place because of a dropped Internet connection.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
link farm: [UNIX] n. A directory tree that contains many links to files in a master directory tree of files.
Link farms save space when one is maintaining several nearly identical copies of th...
LINO: Last In, Never Out mode.
lint(1) is the compiler's only means of dampening the programmer's ego.
lint: [from UNIX's `lint(1)', named for the bits of fluff it supposedly picks from programs] 1.
vt. To examine a program closely for style, language usage, and portability problems, esp....
Linus: Hi! I thought it was you. I've been watching you from way off.
.. You're looking great! Snoopy: That's nice to know....
Linus: I guess it's wrong always to be worrying about tomorrow.
Maybe we should think only about today. Charlie Brow...
Linux: because a 486 is a terrible thing to waste...

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