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Barfulation /bar`fyoo-lay'sh*n/ Interj. Variation Of Barf Used Around The Stanford Area.
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barfulation /bar`fyoo-lay'sh*n/ interj.
Variation of
barf used around the Stanford area. An exclamation,
expressing disgust. On seeing some particularly bad code one might
exclaim, "Barfulation! Who wrote this, Quux?"
Related:
barfulation: /bar`fyoo-lay'sh*n/ interj. Variation of {barf} used around the Stanford area.
An exclamation, expressing disgust. On seeing some particularly bad code one might exclaim, "Barfulation!...
bletch /blech/ interj. [very common; from Yiddish/German `brechen', to vomit, poss.
via comic-strip exclamation `blech'] Term of disgust....
bletch: /blech/ [from Yiddish/German `brechen', to vomit, poss.
via comic-strip exclamation `blech'] interj. Term of disgust....
barfulous /bar'fyoo-l*s/ adj. (alt. `barfucious', /bar-fyoo-sh*s/) Said of something that would make anyone barf, if only for esthetic reasons.
barf: /barf/ [from mainstream slang meaning `vomit'] 1.
interj. Term of disgust. This is the closest hackish equivalent of the Val\-speak "gag me with a spoon"....
metasyntactic variable n. A name used in examples and understood to stand for whatever thing is under discussion, or any random member of a class of things under discussion.
The word foo is the canonical example. To avoid confusion, hackers never (well, hardly ever) use `foo' or other words like it as permanent names for anything....
barfulous: /bar'fyoo-l*s/ adj. (alt. `barfucious', /bar-fyoo-sh*s/) Said of something that would make anyone barf, if only for esthetic reasons.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
barf /barf/ n.,v. [common; from mainstream slang meaning `vomit'] 1.
interj. Term of disgust. This is the closest hackish equivalent of the Valspeak "gag me with a spoon"....
quux /kwuhks/ n. [Mythically, from the Latin semi-deponent verb quuxo, quuxare, quuxandum iri
oun form variously `quux' (plural `quuces', anglicized to `quuxes') and `quuxu' (genitive plural is `quuxuum', for four u-letters out of seven in all, using up all the `u' letters in Scrabble)....