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• one-liner wars: n. A game popular among hackers who code in the language APL (see {write-only language} and {line noise}).
  The objective is to see who can code the most interesting and/or useful routine in one line of operators chosen from APL's exceedingly {hairy} primitive set....
• 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....
• Perl /perl/ n. [Practical Extraction and Report Language, a.
  k.a. Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister] An interpreted language developed by Larry Wall (&l...
• Perl: /perl/ [Practical Extraction and Report Language, a.
  k.a Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister] n. An interpreted language developed by Larry Wall &l...
• write-only language: n. A language with syntax (or semantics) sufficiently dense and bizarre that any routine of significant size is automatically {write-only code}.
  A sobriquet applied occasionally to C and often to APL, though {INTERCAL} and {TECO} certainly deserve it more....
• bit-paired keyboard n.,obs. (alt. `bit-shift keyboard') A non-standard keyboard layout that seems to have originated with the Teletype ASR-33 and remained common for several years on early computer equipment.
  The ASR-33 was a mechanical device (see EOU), so the only way to generate the character codes from keystrokes was by some physical linkage....
• write-only language n. A language with syntax (or semantics) sufficiently dense and bizarre that any routine of significant size is automatically write-only code.
  A sobriquet applied occasionally to C and often to APL, though INTERCAL and TECO certainly deserve it more....
• unes pl.n. 1. Anything that requires heavy wizardry or black art to parse
  core dumps, JCL commands, APL, or code in a language you haven't a clue how to read....
• MFTL /M-F-T-L/ [abbreviation: `My Favorite Toy Language'] 1.
  adj. Describes a talk on a programming language design that is heavy on the syntax (with lots of BNF), sometimes even talks about semantics (e....