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• elvish n. 1. The Tengwar of Feanor, a table of letterforms resembling the beautiful Celtic half-uncial hand of the "Book of Kells".
  Invented and described by J. R. R. Tolkien in "The Lord of The Rings" as an orthography for his fictional `elvish' languages, this system (which is both visually and phonetically elegant) has long fascinated hackers (who tend to be intrigued by artificial languages in general)....
• elder days: n. The heroic age of hackerdom (roughly, pre-1980)
  he era of the {PDP-10}, {TECO}, {{ITS}}, and the ARPANET....
• elder days n. The heroic age of hackerdom (roughly, pre-1980)
  he era of the PDP-10, TECO, ITS ARPANET. This term has been rather consciously adopted from J....
• ee-killer: [Sun] n. 1. A printer. 2. A person who wastes paper.
  This epithet should be interpreted in a broad sense...
• 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....
• PDL: /P-D-L/, /pid'l/, /p*d'l/ or /puhd'l/ 1. n. `Program Design Language'.
  Any of a large class of formal and profoundly useless pseudo-languages in which {management} forces one to design programs....
• Angband n. /ang'band/ Like nethack, moria, and rogue
  one of the large freely distributed Dungeons-and-Dragons-like simulation games, available for a wide range of machines and operating systems....
• ee-killer n. [Sun] 1. A printer. 2. A person who wastes paper.
  This epithet should be interpreted in a broad sense...
• 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....