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• hello world interj. 1. The canonical minimal test message in the C/Unix universe.
  2. Any of the minimal programs that emit this message....
• oddy: /nod'ee/ [UK: from the children's books] adj.
  1. Small and un-useful, but demonstrating a point....
• hello, sailor!: interj. Occasional West Coast equivalent of {hello, world}
  eems to have originated at SAIL, later associated with the game {Zork} (which also included "hello, aviator" and "hello, implementor")....
• oddy /nod'ee/ adj. [UK: from the children's books] 1.
  Small and un-useful, but demonstrating a point. Noddy programs are often written by people learning a new language or system....
• 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!...
• cascade: n. 1. A huge volume of spurious error-message output produced by a compiler with poor error recovery.
  Too frequently, one trivial syntax error (such as a missing `)' or `}') throws the parser out of synch so that much of the remaining program text is interpreted as garbaged or ill-formed....
• MFTL /M-F-T-L/ [abbreviation: `My Favorite Toy Language'] 1.
  adj. Describes a talk on a programming language design that is heavy on the syntax (with lots of BNF), sometimes even talks about semantics (e....
• cat: [from `catenate' via {{UNIX}} `cat(1)'] vt. 1.
  [techspeak] To spew an entire file to the screen or some other output sink without pause....
• hello sailor! interj. Occasional West Coast equivalent of hello world
  eems to have originated at SAIL, later associated with the game Zork (which also included "hello, aviator" and "hello, implementor")....