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• 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....
• Knuth: /knooth/ [Donald E. Knuth's "The Art of Computer Programming"] n.
  Mythically, the reference that answers all questions about data structures or algorithms....
• No question is so difficult as one to which the answer is obvious.
• by hand: adv. 1. Said of an operation (especially a repetitive
  trivial, and/or tedious one) that ought to be performed automatically by the computer, but which a hacker instead has to step tediously through....
• fence: n. 1. A sequence of one or more distinguished ({out-of-band}) characters (or other data items)
  used to delimit a piece of data intended to be treated as a unit (the computer-science literature calls this a `sentinel')....
• ivial: adj. 1. Too simple to bother detailing. 2.
  Not worth the speaker's time. 3. Complex, but solvable by methods so well known that anyone not utterly {cretinous} would have thought of them already....
• 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....
• 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....
• Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us.
  Science has no answer to it. -- Max Planck...