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• he X that can be Y is not the true X Yet another instance of hackerdom's peculiar attraction to mystical references -- a common humorous way of making exclusive statements about a class of things.
  The template is from the "Tao te Ching": "The Tao which can be spoken of is not the true Tao....
• has the X nature: [seems to derive from Zen Buddhist koans of the form "Does an X have the Buddha-nature?
  ] adj. Common hacker construction for `is an X', used for humorous emphasis....
• The Tao of Programming: James Geoffrey Infobooks, 1987 ISBN 0-931137-07-1 This gentle, funny spoof of the "Tao Te Ching" contains much that is illuminating about the hacker way of thought.
  When you have learned to snatch the error code from the trap frame, it will be time for you to leave....
• The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal Name.
  -- Lao-Tzu, Tao Te Ching...
• has the X nature [seems to derive from Zen Buddhist koans of the form "Does an X have the Buddha-nature?
  ] adj. Common hacker construction for `is an X', used for humorous emphasis....
• winged comments: n. Comments set on the same line as code, as opposed to {boxed comments}.
  In C, for example: d = sqrt(x*x + y*y); /* distance from origin */ Generally these refer only to the action(s) taken on that line....
• xyzzy: /X-Y-Z-Z-Y/, /X-Y-ziz'ee/, /ziz'ee/, or /ik-ziz'ee/ [from the ADVENT game] adj.
  The {canonical} `magic word'. This comes from {ADVENT}, in which the idea is to explore an underground cave with many rooms and to collect the treasures you find there....
• Microsloth Windows: /mi:'kroh-sloth` win'dohz/ n. Hackerism for `Microsoft Windows'
  a windowing system for the IBM-PC which is so limited by bug-for-bug compatibility with {mess-dos} that it is agonizingly slow on anything less than a fast 486....
• ome random X: adj. Used to indicate a member of class X, with the implication that Xs are interchangeable.
  I think some random cracker tripped over the guest timeout last night....