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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'...
kluge around vt. To avoid a bug or difficult condition by inserting a kluge.
Compare workaround....
kluge up vt. To lash together a quick hack to perform a task
Knights of the Lambda Calculus n. A semi-mythical organization of wizardly LISP and Scheme hackers.
The name refers to a mathematical formalism invented by Alonzo Church, with which LISP...
knobs pl.n. Configurable options, even in software and even those you can't adjust in real time.
Anything you can twiddle is a knob. "Has this PNG viewer got an alpha knob?" Software ma...
Knuth /ka-nooth'/ n. [Donald E. Knuth's "The Art of Computer Programming"] Mythically, the reference that answers all questions about data structures or algorithms.
A safe answer when you...
koan /koh'an/ n. A Zen teaching riddle. Classically, koans are attractive paradoxes to be meditated o
heir purpose is to help one to enlightenment by temporarily jamming normal cogniti...
kremvax /krem-vaks/ n.
kyrka /chur'ka/ n. [Swedish] See feature key.
lace card n. obs. A punched card with all holes punched (also called a `whoopee card' or `ventilator card').
Card readers tended to jam when they got to one of these, as the resulting ca...

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