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- The Jargon File is a glossary and usage dictionary of slang used by computer programmers. The original Jargon File was a collection of terms from technical...30 KB (3,377 words) - 20:55, 27 August 2024
- Heisenbug (redirect from Unusual software bugs)In computer programming jargon, a heisenbug is a software bug that seems to disappear or alter its behavior when one attempts to study it. The term is...12 KB (1,395 words) - 13:40, 11 March 2024
- Jargon or technical language is the specialized terminology associated with a particular field or area of activity. Jargon is normally employed in a particular...30 KB (3,300 words) - 05:20, 26 August 2024
- objective loss to the practical use of software is the loss of the host system as a practical operating environment. The Jargon File, a compendium of hacker lore...13 KB (1,592 words) - 05:59, 18 August 2024
- In software engineering, a project fork happens when developers take a copy of source code from one software package and start independent development...17 KB (1,867 words) - 04:05, 18 June 2024
- Cruft (redirect from Software cruft)Cruft is a jargon word for anything that is left over, redundant and getting in the way. It is used particularly for defective, superseded, useless, superfluous...6 KB (641 words) - 20:08, 14 March 2024
- Hacker culture (redirect from Hacker (Free and Open Source Software))According to the Jargon File, the word hacker was used in a similar sense among radio amateurs in the 1950s, predating the software hacking community...48 KB (5,570 words) - 00:28, 10 July 2024
Padonkaffsky jargon (Russian: язык падонкафф, romanized: yazyk padonkaff), also known as Olbanian (олбанский, olbansky), is a slang developed by a Runet...6 KB (666 words) - 02:12, 1 April 2024- In software development, when software has been forked or uses a chain of libraries/dependencies, upstream refers to an issue that occurs in software related...3 KB (408 words) - 17:15, 27 September 2023
Eric S. Raymond (category Free software programmers)his programming career writing proprietary software, between 1980 and 1985. In 1990, noting that the Jargon File had not been maintained since about 1983...19 KB (1,895 words) - 04:25, 18 July 2024- Cargo cult programming (redirect from Cargo cult software engineering)rituals. The term "cargo-cult programming" appeared in version 2.5.1 of the Jargon File, a glossary of computing slang, released in January 1991. The term...7 KB (621 words) - 12:10, 22 August 2024
- SEX (computing) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Jargon File)the name being explained as a contraction of 'pubic'. For hardware, the Jargon File also reports the less common expression byte sex [1]. It is unclear...2 KB (277 words) - 04:59, 14 January 2022
- season episode "Seeing Red". Opening Credits Jargon: Modchip - A computer chip that alters a device's software for deviant use. 19 6 "Gone in 6 Seconds"...33 KB (1,487 words) - 00:43, 24 May 2024
- writing free software or commercial software. Eric S. Raymond (2003-12-29). "Proprietary, Jargon File". Retrieved 2009-06-12. Proprietary software should be...44 KB (4,849 words) - 21:09, 24 August 2024
- Deprecation (redirect from Deprecated software)"deprecate" was cited in the Jargon File in its 1991 revision, and similar definitions are found in commercial software documentation from 2014 and 2023...12 KB (887 words) - 02:03, 19 August 2024
Hacker (section Free software/open source)mass media usage of the word since the 1990s. This includes what hacker jargon calls script kiddies, less skilled criminals who rely on tools written by...40 KB (4,246 words) - 07:50, 2 August 2024- Eric S. "copycenter". The Jargon File. Stallman, Richard (2016-02-08). "License Compatibility and Relicensing". Free Software Foundation. Retrieved 2019-09-29...24 KB (2,535 words) - 22:42, 29 July 2024
Free software, libre software, libreware or rarely known as freedom-respecting software is computer software distributed under terms that allow users...52 KB (5,523 words) - 20:23, 15 August 2024- Agile software development is an umbrella term for approaches to developing software that reflect the values and principles agreed upon by The Agile Alliance...90 KB (10,184 words) - 14:53, 28 August 2024
User guide (redirect from Software manual)simplified diagrams. The language used is matched to the intended audience, with jargon kept to a minimum or explained thoroughly. The sections of a user manual...6 KB (692 words) - 03:38, 26 January 2024
- the years. The New Hacker Dictionary, an online compendium of software-programmer jargon, officially lists nine different connotations of the word "hack"
- and the present maintainer of the Jargon File (also known as "The New Hacker's Dictionary"). Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer's
- familiar with technical terms and can easily confuse the customer with this jargon. Agile methods use an approach to determining requirements that can be described