Jargon File: Difference between revisions

* [[Ice Cream Koan]]

* [[Astroturf]]: Source of one of the [http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/A/astroturfing.html earliest definitions] of the sense in which we present it.

* [[Black Box]]: The File is rife with terms describing programming Black Boxes, most notably [http://catb.org/esr/jargon/html/magic-story.html Black Magic].

* [[Devil's Dictionary]]: The Jargon File occasionally [[Zig-Zagging Trope|slips into this mode]], but for the most part is a rather [[Played Straight|straightforward example]] of the dictionary genre, even if at times [[Sophisticated As Hell|informal]] or [[Ha Ha Only Serious]]:

{{quote|'''[http://catb.org/esr/jargon/html/M/Microsloth-Windows.html Microsloth Windows]''': /mi:krohsloth` windohz/, n. (Variants combine {Microshift, Macroshaft, Microsuck} with {Windoze, WinDOS}. Hackerism(s) for 'Microsoft Windows'. A thirty-two bit extension and graphical shell to a sixteen-bit patch to an eight-bit operating system originally coded for a four-bit microprocessor which was written by a two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition.}}

* [[Ha Ha Only Serious]]: Defined by the file.

* [[Hanlon's Razor]]: Possibly the earliest expression of the concept under that name.