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The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 by Eric S. Raymond and Guy L. Steele

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"The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992" by Eric S. Raymond and Guy L. Steele is a glossary and usage dictionary published in 1992. Born from the slang of MIT and Stanford AI labs in the 1970s, this collection captures the colorful language of early computer programmers and hackers. Through decades of evolution, it transformed from a living document into a legendary chronicle of hacker culture, preserving terms and philosophies that shaped the digital revolution and influenced generations of programmers worldwide. (This is an automatically generated summary.) ... Read more Show less

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Editor	Raymond, Eric S., 1957-
Editor	Steele, Guy L., 1954-
Title	The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992
Note	Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jargon_File
Reading Level	Reading ease score: 64.2 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.
Language	English
LoC Class	TK: Technology: Electrical, Electronics and Nuclear engineering
Subject	Electronic data processing -- Terminology -- Humor
Subject	Computers -- Humor
Subject	Computers -- Slang -- Dictionaries
Category	Text
eBook-No.	38
ISBN (HTML)	979-8-238-00038-1
Release Date	Aug 1, 1992
Last Update	Jan 1, 2021
Copyright	Public domain in the USA.
Downloads	2468 downloads in the last 30 days.

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