ADA                     Countess of Lovelace. c1840.
Adabas                  Database software developed c 1970.
ALGOL                   Algorithmic Language. 1960.
APL                     A Progamming Language. Array processing. Ken Iverson.
ASCII                   Universal format for text files. Cheap & effective.
Assembler               Symbolic machine code. For nerds only...
AT&T                    Bell Research labs in New Jersy is home of UNIX.
AVI                     Video file format.
Babbage                 Designer of analytic engine. c1840
BASIC                   Beginners' All purpose Symbolic.
BCPL                    Forerunner of C.
Bison                   GNU version of Yacc.
Bool                    Wrote 'Laws of Thought'. c1850
Bourne                  Early UNIX pioneer. 'bash' is the Bourne shell.
Browser Wars            Internet Explorer verses Netscape.
buffer overflow         Loophole exploited by early hackers.
bus                     hardware term.
bytesex                 Big endian or little endian.
C                       System programming language for UNIX. Pronounce See.
C++                     Evolution of C
C#                      Evolution of C++ and JAVA. Microsoft.
CGI                     Common gateway interface. Server to HTML forms.
Chomsky N.              Language theoretician. Radical left politics.
client                  Guest.
COBOL                   Capitalist verbosity.
crack                   Crack a password. A library.
D4                      dialect of APL with ideas stolen from UNIX shell.
daemon                  Background program. Often a server.
demon                   Short for Demonstration. 'Demon with Sound'.
DEC                     Digital Equipment Corporation. Also DEC
DES                     Data encryption standard.
DJGPP                   Excellent C Compiler for DOS/WINDOWS
e-mail                  Electronic mail. Also E-commerce.
emacs                   Editor based on Lisp. From M.I.T.
Euler                   Solved 100 year old factorisation problem. 2^32+1.
expect                  Simple event driven scripting language.
FascistCheck            Part of cracklib.
FAT                     File allocation table.
FORTRAN                 Formula Translator. 1950s language used today.
fry                     to 'Sautee' a string is to permute its elements.
GIF                     Graphic Image Format. Uses LZH
GNOME                   Windows manager.
GNU                     Genuinely not UNIX. Public domain software project.
Godel                   Designed a code to express all logic statements.
GUI                     Graphic user interface. Eats up resources. Expensive.
Heisenbug               Bug that dissapears when debugging is turned on.
Hilbert                 Set the problem solved by Turing. c1905.
HTML                    Hypertext Markup Language.
HSV                     Hue Saturation Value colour encoding.
Hacker                  Sort of programmer. Often anti-capitalist.
Huffman codes           Stochastic data compression technique. c1950
Illegal Instruction     Program obeys data. Equal scores in browser wars.
Installer               Program to put other programs on the computer.
J                       Evolution of APL. Iverson.
Java                    C++ like programming language for active content.
JPEG                    Joint Picture Group. Image compression.
K                       Database language.
K&R                     Kernigan and Ritchie. Writers of first book on C.
KDE                     Popular Linux desktop.
Knuth, D.E.             Creator of opus: Art of Computer Programming.
Lab                     Colour co-ordinate system.
LINUX                   Clone of UNIX implemented by Linus Torvalds.
LZH                     Lev-Zimple Huffman compression technique.
M.I.T.                  Massachusts institute of technology.
macro                   Canned text, often used to save typing.
magic                   Signature used to identify file type
Magick                  Esoteric arts. see witchcraft
Maple                   A popular maths programming language.
MPEG                    Video encoding. Motion Picture Group.
MUD                     Multi User Dungeon.
NeXT                    Black box computer. Evolution of Apple Mac.
OLE                     Object Linked Environment.
Open System             System where full explanations are given to user.
P=NP                    Conjecture about algorithms.
PDF                     'Portable document format'. Needs Adobe Acrobat.
perl                    Pathologically eclectic rubbish lister. Larry Wall.
PINE                    Easy to use mailing program. Public domain.
pod                     Plain ordinary documentation.
PostScript              Image processing language. Used in printers.
python                  Scripting language. CWI.
Reverse engineering     Unfortunate necessity in capitalist system.
Ramanujan               Invented modern methods for computing 'Pi'.
RGB                     Red Green Blue. Colour co-ordinates.
RTF                     Rich text format. For those with resources to waste.
Russel B                Logician -> radical left politics.
salt                    Sprinkle this on your DES.
sanity check            Can be put in programs. Needs thought.
Segment Violation       Attempt to access data out of range
semaphore               Queue discipline method. Dijkstra.
setuid                  Upwards mobility in UNIX permissions heirarchy
signal                  Form of interprocess communication.
Shell                   Command interface. Cheaper to implement than GUI.
Sloane N.J.A.           AT&T researcher. Integer sequence database.
strip                   Strip symbols from binaries.
tar                     File archive format.  'Let them eat tar'.
Tcl                     Scripting language for X. Berkeley.
TeX                     Pronounce as Tecch. WISAWYG document praparation
TIFF                    Tagged Image Format
TIN                     Easy to use news reading program.
Turing                  Computer scientist in early twentieth century.
UNIX                    Computer operating system invented by AT&T
vi                      Visual intereactive editor.
virus                   Sometimes malignant program or script.
Von Neumann             Inventor of logical model for modern computers.
VB                      Visual Basic. Embedded in Microsoft Office.
VRML                    Virtual Reality modelling language.
VT100                   DEC terminal. Immortalised by emulation programs.
Winzip                  Popular Windows archiver. Blocking Copyright message.
witchcraft              Term used to describe what people don't understand.
WISAWYG                 What I see ain't what you get.
wizard                  Directed help text for programs.
worm                    Sometimes malignant installer.
WYSIWYG                 What you see is what you get.
X                       Unix windows server.
XYZ                     Transformed colour encoding.
yacc                    Yet another compiler compiler
zip                     Data compression/decompression techniques.
zombie                  An undead process. To kill it, close the pipe.





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