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• Wizard Book n. "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" (Hal Abelson, Jerry Sussman and Julie Sussma
  MIT Press, 1984, 1996; ISBN 0-262-01153-0), an excellent computer science text used in introductory courses at MIT....
• Purple Book: n. 1. The "System V Interface Definition".
  The covers of the first editions were an amazingly nauseating shade of off-lavender....
• Red Book: n. 1. Informal name for one of the three standard references on {{PostScript}} ("PostScript Language Reference Manual", Adobe Systems (Addison-Wesley, 1985
  QA76.73.P67P67; ISBN 0-201-10174-2, or the 1990 second edition ISBN 0-201-18127-4)...
• Aluminum Book: [MIT] n. "Common LISP: The Language", by Guy L.
  Steele Jr. (Digital Press, first edition 1984, second edition 1990)....
• book titles:: There is a tradition in hackerdom of informally tagging important textbooks and standards documents with the dominant color of their covers or with some other conspicuous feature of the cover.
  Many of these are described in this lexicon under their own entries....
• frob: /frob/ 1. n. [MIT] The {TMRC} definition was "FROB = a protruding arm or trunnio
  by metaphoric extension, a `frob' is any random small thing...
• WIZARD n. 1. A person who knows how a complex piece of software or hardware work
  omeone who can find and fix his bugs in an emergency....
• chine nual: /sheen'yu-*l/ [MIT] n.,obs. The LISP Machine Manual, so called because the title was wrapped around the cover so only those letters showed on the front.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• zeroth: /zee'rohth/ adj. First. Among software designers, comes from C's and LISP's 0-based indexing of arrays.
  Hardware people also tend to start counting at 0 instead of 1...