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HUMOR: Userspeak vs Hackerspeak (fwd)
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From: Tom Christiansen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.misc
Subject: HUMOR: Userspeak vs Hackerspeak
Date: 12 Feb 1998 01:18:14 GMT
Organization: Perl Consulting and Training
Programmers, have you ever noticed that while you went into a profession
that used to get listed on the science section in the newspapers, but
that now it's been demoted to merely the business section?
Users, do you get the idea that programmers march to the beat of a
different drummer?
Have you all not wondered why programmers and users never seem to
understand each other? It's mediaspeak! What you really need is
this handy dandy quick reference conversion guide!
C:\ root#
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ace programmer hacker
advertisements lying
applications programming useless user stuff
away from the computer offline
BBS kiddie chat
beta test public bug release
borrowware unethical piracy and thievery
C script C program
carriage return newline
CGI waste of valuable time
CGI's CGI programs
client current computer
client-server networking
coding hacking
computers cool fun toys
console tty
desktop window manager
disk diskette
disk floppy
disk floppy disk
DOS programmer-hostile
drive filesystem
drive partition
elitism competance
email mail
emails messages
exe a.out
file or directory file
folder directory
getting help paying a consultant
GUI productivity impediment
hacker cracker or criminal
hacking criminal trespassing
hard disk disk
hard disk drive disk
hard drive disk
hit counter vanity GIF
impossible dream fork
install reboot
Internet BBS Usenet
intranet local network
legacy pre-hegemony
Linux upgrade permanent virus protection
mainframe legacy
marketing lying
menus moronic UI
Microsoft the Evil Empire
NT unnatural child of Windows and VMS
offline Internet-deprived
online documentation manpage
operating system web browser
PC Wintel box
program counter PC
rapid prototyping hacking
reading the source getting help
script program
send an email send mail
server remote computer
shareware lame buddy-can-you-spare-a-dimeware
shortcut link
software fleeceware on a floppy
source code software
text editor editor
text or binary file file
Unix programmer-friendly
unreadable protocol spec CGI
user-friendly expert-obsequious
what's that? FAQ list
Windows unnatural child of DOS and a Mac GUI
wizard programming systems programming
word-processor GUI-based low-tech typewriter
World Wide Web Internet
writing programs playing games
--
Tom Christiansen [email protected]
/* Force them to make up their mind on "@foo". */
--Larry Wall, from toke.c in the v5.0 perl distribution
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