What is Jargon File?
The '''Jargon File''' is a [[glossary]] and [[usage dictionary]] of [[slang]] used by [[Computer programmer|computer programmers]]. The original Jargon File was a collection of terms from technical cultures such as the [[MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory|MIT AI Lab]], the [[Stanford University centers and institutes#Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory|Stanford AI Lab]] (SAIL) and others of the old [[ARPANET]] [[Artificial intelligence|AI]]/[[Lisp programming language|LISP]]/[[PDP-10]] communities. It included [[BBN Technologies|Bolt, Beranek and Newman]], [[Carnegie Mellon University]], and [[Worcester Polytechnic Institute]]. It was published in paperback form in 1983 as '''''The Hacker's Dictionary''''' (edited by [[Guy L. Steele Jr.|Guy Steele]]), revised in 1991 as '''''The New Hacker's Dictionary''''' (ed. [[Eric S. Raymond]]; third edition published 1996). The concept of the file began with the Tech Model Railroad Club (TMRC) that came out of early PDP-1 and TX-0 hackers in the 1950s, where the term [[hacker]] emerged and the ethic, philosophies and some of the nomenclature emerged. [[Category:Computing]]