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Jargon Coiner (#7)
An irregular feature that aims to give you advance warning of new jargon
that we've just made up.
* O'REILLY O'WRITING: Going to a bookstore and copying down notes from an
O'Reilly computer book that you can't afford.
* DEEP WRITE MODE: Similar to "deep hack mode", but applies to people
writing editorials or (very rarely) Slashdot comments. The author
of this fortune file sometimes experiences "deep humor mode".
* EDITORIAL WAR: Skirmishes between two or more parties carried out via
strongly-worded editorials published to sites like Slashdot, Linux
Today, etc. ESR and RMS are frequently engaged in this.
* THREENYM: Referring to someone by the first letter of their three names.
Used by some people (RMS and ESR), but not others (has anybody ever
tried to refer to Linus Torvalds as "LBT"?).
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-- Dalglish, Larsen and Sutherland, "Root Crops and
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A program, no matter how complex, should act as a single unit. The
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If the program fails in these requirements, it will be in a state of
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-- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"
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