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• 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 do not know: "I think you can find that in Knuth....
• TeX /tekh/ n. An extremely powerful macro-based text formatter written by Donald E.
  Knuth, very popular in the computer-science community (it is good enough to have displaced Unix troff, the other favored formatter, even at many Unix installations)....
• literature, the: n. Computer-science journals and other publications, vaguely gestured at to answer a question that the speaker believes is {trivial}.
  Thus, one might answer an annoying question by saying "It's in the literature....
• bible: n. 1. One of a small number of fundamental source books such as {Knuth} and {K&R}.
  2. The most detailed and authoritative reference for a particular language, operating system, or other complex software system....
• ack n. The set of things a person has to do in the future.
  One speaks of the next project to be attacked as having risen to the top of the stack....
• he literature n. Computer-science journals and other publications, vaguely gestured at to answer a question that the speaker believes is trivial.
  Thus, one might answer an annoying question by saying "It's in the literature....
• buffer overflow: n. What happens when you try to stuff more data into a buffer (holding area) than it can handle.
  This may be due to a mismatch in the processing rates of the producing and consuming processes (see {overrun} and {firehose syndrome}), or because the buffer is simply too small to hold all the data that must accumulate before a piece of it can be processed....
• The difference between art and science is that science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer.
  Art is everything else. -- Donald Knuth, "Discove...
• Always remember, however, that there's usually a simpler and better way to do something than the first way that pops into your head.
  -- Donald E. Knuth, "TeXbook...