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• 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 suits, and situations in which hackers generally get the short end of the stick....
• 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....
• RTFS /R-T-F-S/ [Unix] 1. imp. Abbreviation for `Read The Fucking Source'.
  Variant form of RTFM, used when the problem at hand is not necessarily obvious and not answerable from the manuals -- or the manuals are not yet written and maybe never will be....
• write-only language: n. A language with syntax (or semantics) sufficiently dense and bizarre that any routine of significant size is automatically {write-only code}.
  A sobriquet applied occasionally to C and often to APL, though {INTERCAL} and {TECO} certainly deserve it more....
• legal: adj. Loosely used to mean `in accordance with all the relevant rules', esp.
  in connection with some set of constraints defined by software....
• COBOL: /koh'bol/ [COmmon Business-Oriented Language] n.
  (Synonymous with {evil}.) A weak, verbose, and flabby language used by {card walloper}s to do boring mindless things on {dinosaur} mainframes....
• quote chapter and verse: [by analogy with the mainstream phrase] v.
  To cite a relevant excerpt from an appropriate {bible}....
• English: 1. n.,obs. The source code for a program, which may be in any language, as opposed to the linkable or executable binary produced from it by a compiler.
  The idea behind the term is that to a real hacker, a program written in his favorite programming language is at least as readable as English....
• Ada:: n. A {{Pascal}}-descended language that has been made mandatory for Department of Defense software projects by the Pentagon.
  Hackers are nearly unanimous in observing that, technically, it is precisely what one might expect given that kind of endorsement by fia...