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• 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....
• oid suff. [from Greek suffix -oid = `in the image of'] 1.
  Used as in mainstream slang English to indicate a poor imitation, a counterfeit, or some otherwise slightly bogus resemblance....
• 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....
• oid: [from `android'] suff. 1. Used as in mainstream English to indicate a poor imitation, a counterfeit, or some otherwise slightly bogus resemblance.
  Hackers will happily use it with all sorts of non-Greco/Latin stem words that wouldn't keep company with it in mainstream English....
• grue n. [from archaic English verb for `shudder'
  as with fear] The grue was originated in the game Zork (Dave Lebling took the name from Jack Vance's "Dying Earth" fantasies) and used in several other Infocom games as a hint that you should perhaps look for a lamp, torch or some type of light source....
• I confess that I love Pooh and have never seen Beavis and Butthead.
• kludge 1. /klooj/ n. Incorrect (though regrettably common) spelling of kluge (US).
  These two words have been confused in American usage since the early 1960s, and widely confounded in Great Britain since the end of World War II....
• Quote #601 Most documentation starts as hastily scrawled notes from sleep-deprived developers who weren't necessarily hired for their keen communication skills.
  Those notes are then fleshed out by recently graduated English majors who have spent their last four years immersed in works of fiction....
• bug n. An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, esp.
  one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature....