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Grault: /grawlt/ N. Yet Another {metasyntactic Variable}, Invented By Mike Gallaher And Propagated By The {GOSMACS} Documentation.
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:grault: /grawlt/ n. Yet another {metasyntactic variable}, invented by
Mike Gallaher and propagated by the {GOSMACS} documentation. See
{corge}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Related:
grault /grawlt/ n. Yet another metasyntactic variable, invented by Mike Gallaher and propagated by GOSMACS documentation.
See corge....
corge: /korj/ [originally, the name of a cat] n. Yet another {metasyntactic variable}, invented by Mike Gallaher and propagated by the {GOSMACS} documentation.
See {grault}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
corge /korj/ n. [originally, the name of a cat] Yet another metasyntactic variable, invented by Mike Gallaher and propagated by the GOSMACS documentation.
See grault....
garply: /gar'plee/ [Stanford] n. Another metasyntactic variable (see {foo})
once popular among SAIL hackers. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
hud: n. 1. Yet another {metasyntactic variable} (see {foo}).
It is reported that at CMU from the mid-1970s the canonical series of these was `foo', `bar', `thud', `blat'....
flarp: /flarp/ [Rutgers University] n. Yet another {metasyntactic variable} (see {foo}).
Among those who use it, it is associated with a legend that any program not containing the word `flarp' somewhere will not work....
foobar: n. Another common {metasyntactic variable}
ee {foo}. Hackers do *not* generally use this to mean {FUBAR} in either the slang or jargon sense....
fish: [Adelaide University, Australia] n. 1. Another {metasyntactic variable}.
See {foo}. Derived originally from the Monty Python skit in the middle of "The Meaning of Life" entitled "Find the Fish"....
garply /gar'plee/ n. [Stanford] Another metasyntactic variable (see foo)
once popular among SAIL hackers....