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• Berkeley Quality Software: adj. (often abbreviated `BQS') Term used in a pejorative sense to refer to software that was apparently created by rather spaced-out hackers late at night to solve some unique problem.
  It usually has nonexistent, incomplete, or incorrect documentation, has been tested on at least two examples, and core dumps when anyone else attempts to use it....
• Berzerkeley: /b*r-zer'klee/ [from `berserk', via the name of a now-deceased record label] n.
  Humorous distortion of `Berkeley' used esp. to refer to the practices or products of the {BSD} UNIX hackers....
• Berzerkeley /b*r-zer'klee/ n. [from `berserk', via the name of a now-deceased record label
  poss. originated by famed columnist Herb Caen] Humorous distortion of `Berkeley' used esp....
• bug n. An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, esp.
  one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature....
• 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....
• elite adj. Clueful. Plugged-in. One of the cognoscenti.
  Also used as a general positive adjective. This term is not actually hacker slang in the strict sense...
• foo /foo/ 1. interj. Term of disgust. 2. [very common] Used very generally as a sample name for absolutely anything, esp.
  programs and files (esp. scratch files). 3. First on the standard list of metasyntactic variables used in syntax examples....
• DDT /D-D-T/ n. [from the insecticide para-dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethene] 1.
  Generic term for a program that assists in debugging other programs by showing individual machine instructions in a readable symbolic form and letting the user change them....
• TMRC and the MIT hacker culture of the early '60s seems to have developed in a milieu that remembered and still used some WWII military slang (see also foobar).
  It seems likely that `kluge' came to MIT via alumni of the many military electronics projects that had been located in Cambridge (many in MIT's venerable Building 20, in which TMRC is also located) during the war....