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• language lawyer n. A person, usually an experienced or senior software enginee
  who is intimately familiar with many or most of the numerous restrictions and features (both useful and esoteric) applicable to one or more computer programming languages....
• legal: adj. Loosely used to mean `in accordance with all the relevant rules', esp.
  in connection with some set of constraints defined by software....
• legal adj. Loosely used to mean `in accordance with all the relevant rules', esp.
  in connection with some set of constraints defined by software....
• legalese: n. Dense, pedantic verbiage in a language description, product specification, or interface standard
  ext that seems designed to obfuscate and requires a {language lawyer} to {parse} it....
• bigot: n. A person who is religiously attached to a particular computer, language, operating system, editor, or other tool (see {religious issues}).
  Usually found with a specifier; thus, `cray bigot', `ITS bigot', `APL bigot', `VMS bigot', `Berkeley bigot'....
• HAKMEM /hak'mem/ n. MIT AI Memo 239 (February 1972).
  A legendary collection of neat mathematical and programming hacks contributed by many people at MIT and elsewhere....
• wizard: n. 1. A person who knows how a complex piece of software or hardware works (that is, who {grok}s it)
  esp. someone who can find and fix bugs quickly in an emergency....
• oy language: n. A language useful for instructional purposes or as a proof-of-concept for some aspect of computer-science theory, but inadequate for general-purpose programming.
  {Bad Thing}s can result when a toy language is promoted as a general purpose solution for programming (see {bondage-and-discipline language})...
• INTERCAL /in't*r-kal/ n. [said by the authors to stand for `Compiler Language With No Pronounceable Acronym'] A computer language designed by Don Woods and James Lyons in 1972.
  INTERCAL is purposely different from all other computer languages in all ways but one...