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Backspace And Overstrike: Interj. Whoa! Back Up. Used To Suggest That Someone Just Said Or Did Something Wrong.
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:backspace and overstrike: interj. Whoa! Back up. Used to suggest
that someone just said or did something wrong. Common among
APL programmers.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Related:
backspace and overstrike interj. [rare] Whoa! Back up.
Used to suggest that someone just said or did something wrong....
pin: vi. Equivalent to {buzz}. More common among C and UNIX programmers.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
line starve: [MIT] 1. vi. To feed paper through a printer the wrong way by one line (most printers can't do this).
On a display terminal, to move the cursor up to the previous line of the screen....
berklix: /berk'liks/ n.,adj. [contraction of `Berkeley UNIX'] See {BSD}.
Not used at Berkeley itself. May be more common among {suit}s attempting to sound like cognoscenti than among hackers, who usually just say `BSD'....
control-C: vi. 1. "Stop whatever you are doing." From the interrupt character used on many operating systems to abort a running program.
Considered silly. 2. interj. Among BSD UNIX hackers, the canonical humorous response to "Give me a break!...
loop through: vt. To process each element of a list of things.
"Hold on, I've got to loop through my paper mail....
ape: vt. 1. To {screw} someone or something, violently
in particular, to destroy a program or information irrecoverably....
feetch feetch: /feech feech/ interj. If someone tells you about some new improvement to a program, you might respond
Feetch, feetch!" The meaning of this depends critically on vocal inflection....
ale pointer bug: n. Synonym for {aliasing bug} used esp.
among microcomputer hackers. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...