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• Objectionable-C n. Hackish take on "Objective-C
  he name of an object-oriented dialect of C in competition with the better-known C++ (it is used to write native applications on the NeXT machine)....
• languages of choice n. C, C++, LISP, and Perl.
  Nearly every hacker knows one of C or LISP, and most good ones are fluent in both....
• languages of choice: n. {C} and {LISP}. Nearly every hacker knows one of these, and most good ones are fluent in both.
  Smalltalk and Prolog are also popular in small but influential communities....
• C: n. 1. The third letter of the English alphabet. 2.
  ASCII 1000011. 3. The name of a programming language designed by Dennis Ritchie during the early 1970s and immediately used to reimplement {{UNIX}}...
• Classic C: /klas'ik C/ [a play on `Coke Classic'] n.
  The C programming language as defined in the first edition of {K&R}, with some small additions....
• char: /keir/ or /char/; rarely, /kar/ n. Shorthand for `character'.
  Esp. used by C programmers, as `char' is C's typename for character data....
• awk: 1. n. [UNIX techspeak] An interpreted language for massaging text data developed by Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan (the name derives from their initials).
  It is characterized by C-like syntax, a declaration-free approach to variable typing and declarations, associative arrays, and field-oriented text processing....
• Old Testament: [C programmers] n. The first edition of {K&R}, the sacred text describing {Classic C}.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• vaxocentrism /vak`soh-sen'trizm/ n. [analogy with `ethnocentrism'] A notional disease said to afflict C programmers who persist in coding according to certain assumptions that are valid (esp.
  under Unix) on VAXen but false elsewhere. Among these are...