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• GOSMACS: /goz'maks/ [contraction of `Gosling EMACS'] n.
  The first {EMACS}-in-C implementation, predating but now largely eclipsed by {GNUMACS}....
• GNUMACS /gnoo'maks/ n. [contraction of `GNU EMACS'] Often-heard abbreviated name for the GNU project's flagship tool, EMACS.
  Used esp. in contrast with GOSMACS....
• EMACS /ee'maks/ n. [from Editing MACroS] The ne plus ultra of hacker editors, a programmable text editor with an entire LISP system inside it.
  It was originally written by Richard Stallman in TECO under ITS at the MIT AI lab...
• demigod n. A hacker with years of experience, a world-wide reputatio
  and a major role in the development of at least one design, tool, or game used by or known to more than half of the hacker community....
• GNUMACS: /gnoo'maks/ [contraction of `GNU EMACS'] Often-heard abbreviated name for the {GNU} project's flagship tool, {EMACS}.
  Used esp. in contrast with {GOSMACS}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• whack v. According to arch-hacker James Gosling (designer of NeWS, GOSMACS and Java), to ".
  ..modify a program with no idea whatsoever how it works....
• EMACS: Emacs Makefiles Annihilate C- Shell
• Java An object-oriented language originally developed at Sun by James Gosling (and known by the name "Oak") with the intention of being the successor to C++ (the project was however originally sold to Sun as an embedded language for use in set-top boxes).
  After the great Internet explosion of 1993-1994, Java was hacked into a byte-interpreted language and became the focus of a relentless hype campaign by Sun, which touted it as the new language of choice for distributed applications....
• TECO /tee'koh/ n.,v. obs. 1. [originally an acronym for `[paper] Tape Editor and COrrector'
  later, `Text Editor and COrrector'] n. A text editor developed at MIT and modified by just about everybody....