Sentence examples for jargon file from inspiring English sources

The original "Jargon File" was circulated among programmers at universities like M.I.T. and Stanford, in the early days of computers.

The Jargon File, a glossary for computer programmers that was launched in 1975, lists eight definitions for "hacker".

By 1975 the word "hacker", which was now in widespread usage, was defined in the Jargon File, a glossary for computer programmers, as "a person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities".

Then I started noticing amiable clusters of animal words (that the "dogcow" makes a "moof" was perhaps the most endearing. Did you know that programmers say a company "eats its own dog food" when it uses its own software?) From there some wicked pedantic delving got me sidetracked into googling "scratch monkey" — only to find myself gurgling all over the "Jargon File".

Eric Raymond, a leading open-source advocate, writing in his online "Jargon File," described the politics of the archetypal open-source programmer, whom he calls J. Random Hacker, as "vaguely liberal-moderate, except for the strong libertarian contingent, which rejects conventional left-right politics entirely".

The explanation that the gadget was named after its supposed inventor, Don Gall, was so egregiously false that the company happily owned up to it as a marketing ploy when pressed by Eric S. Raymond, who maintains the Jargon File, an online lexicon of hacker slang.

Amid legal jargon, the unusual complaint filed Monday recounts five love stories, describing people who married after years of courtship.

You can read the jargon of the patent filing if you want, but then again you could smash your foot with a cartoonishly large hammer.

A brief description of discrete choice experiment, a working example and a glossary of technical terms and jargon are provided at Additional file 1.

His white nationalist spouting is filed with academic jargon ― founding an organization with the distinctly bland name "National Policy Institute" and calling one's movement "alt-right" is no small part of that strategy.

To simplify the user interaction with the data grid we have embedded in the XTENS web application a set of Java methods based on Jargon to store, retrieve, and tag files with user-defined metadata.