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Doco: /do'koh/ [orig. In-house Jargon At Symbolics] N.
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:doco: /do'koh/ [orig. in-house jargon at Symbolics] n. A
documentation writer. See also {devo} and {mango}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Related:
devo: /dee'voh/ [orig. in-house jargon at Symbolics] n.
A person in a development group. See also {doco} and {mango}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
mango: /mang'go/ [orig. in-house jargon at Symbolics] n.
A manager. Compare {mangler}. See also {devo} and {doco}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
mangler: [DEC] n. A manager. Compare {mango}; see also {management}.
Note that {system mangler} is somewhat different in connotation. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
foobar: n. Another common {metasyntactic variable}
ee {foo}. Hackers do *not* generally use this to mean {FUBAR} in either the slang or jargon sense....
grault: /grawlt/ n. Yet another {metasyntactic variable}, invented by Mike Gallaher and propagated by the {GOSMACS} documentation.
See {corge}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
hareware: /sheir'weir/ n. {Freeware} (sense 1) for which the author requests some payment, usually in the accompanying documentation files or in an announcement made by the software itself.
Such payment may or may not buy additional support or functionality....
documentation:: n. The multiple kilograms of macerated, pounded, steamed, bleached, and pressed trees that accompany most modern software or hardware products (see also {tree-killer}).
Hackers seldom read paper documentation and (too) often resist writing i...
garbage collect: vi. (also `garbage collection', n.) See {GC}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
filter: [orig. {{UNIX}}, now also in {{MS-DOS}}] n.
A program that processes an input data stream into an output data stream in some well-defined way, and does no I/O to anywhere else except possibly on error conditio...