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- ARRAY: What comes out of Buck Rogers' gun.
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- ASSUMED DECIMAL POINT: Located two positions to the right of a programmer's
- current salary in estimating his own worth.
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- BIOS: Greek god of devices.
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- BIT: The increment by which programmers slowly go mad.
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- BUG: What managers do to programmers.
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- BUS: As in Greyhound, or PDP, upon which all data commute
- to work.
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- CARD READER: Woman who tells fortunes.
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- CHAINING: A method of attaching programmers to desks to speed
- up output.
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- CHECKPOINT: The location from which a programmer draws his sala-
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- COMMENTS: See fixed word length.
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- COMMON LANGUAGE: The first thing a programmer must forget in order to
- be successful.
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- COMPILER: Program that continually finds fault with your work.
- See also: wife.
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- COMPLEX: Adjective used to describe problems to be avoided.
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- CONCATENATION: Catholic ritual performed once a year to bless pro-
- grammers.
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- CORE STORAGE: A receptical for the center section of apples.
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- COUNTER: A device over which martinis are served.
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- DATA STRUCTURE: Pile of tapes or floppy disks.
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- DEBUGGING AIDS: Insecticides.
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- DUMMY ARGUMENTS: Discussions between operators.
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- DUMP: Slang term for the computer building. (i.e. Why do I
- spend so much time in this dump??)
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- ERROR: What someone else has made when he disagrees with
- your computer output.
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- EXTERNAL STORAGE: Wastebasket.
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- FIXED WORD LENGTH: Four-letter words used by programmers in a state of
- confusion.
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- FLOATING CONTROL: A characteristic exhibited when you have to go to
- the bathroom but can't leave the computer.
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- FLOATING POINT: The absolute limit before floating control is lost.
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- FLOW CHART: A graphic representation of the fastest route to the
- restroom.
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- FORMAT: What you wipe your feet on before entering the com-
- puter building.
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- FREE: Obsolete expression.
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- FUNCTION: What a program never does on the first run.
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- GOTO: Often used in conjunction with Biblical locations.
- See also: Fixed word length.
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- HEAD CRASH: Last step before computer goto, usually executed by
- programmer crashing his head against the nearest
- wall.
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- INFINITE LOOP: See: loop. <PCT 5 16>
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- INPUT: Food, whiskey, beer, aspirin, etc.
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- INTERRUPT: Usually the result of a key punch. See also: Head
- crash.
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- KEY PUNCH: Error solving procedure used by many programmers
- consisting of applying his fist to the teletype
- terminal.
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- KEYWORD: Statement uttered during a key punch. See also Fixed
- Word Length.
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- LINE PRINTER: Machine that prints lines on blank paper, also known
- as paper shredder.
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- LOGICAL OPERATOR: Extinct species.
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- LOOP: See: Infinite loop. <PCT 4 18>
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- LOOPING: Feeling experienced by drunk programmers.
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- MACHINE LANGUAGE: Grunts, groans, sqeaks, shudders, etc.
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- MACRO: The last half of an expression of surprise: "Holy
- Macro".
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- MANUAL: A large, thick book used to support the display
- screen.
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- MASS BUS: A very large bus, sometimes a GMC motor coach. See
- also: Bus.
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- MEMORY DUMP: Amnesia.
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- OPERATING SYSTEM: A rarity.
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- OPERATOR: The person who always rips your class project in
- half when removing it from the line printer.
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- OUTPUT: See Floating control.
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- OVERFLOW: Condition resulting from exceeding floating point.
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- POST MORTEM DUMP: Place for dead programmers.
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- PROGRAMMER: Red-eyed, mumbling mammal capable of conversing with
- inanimate objects.
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- Recursion: See: Recursion.
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- Reserved word: See Fixed word length.
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- Significant digit: Middle finger of either hand, commonly used by pro-
- grammers while talking to operators. (I.E. He gave
- the operator two significant digits.)
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- Stack: Very large data structure.
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- String: Device which holds a programmer's shoes on.
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- Tape drive: Best known for its ability to have lunch in the
- middle of reading the only copy of a source tape.
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- Variable: Bisexual programmer.
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- Write statement: Opposite of wrong statement.
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- If you shudder at having to step back through all those loops, infinite
- loops, and recursions, take the easy way out... <TOC>
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