The Hacker's Dictionary
The original version of this dictionary: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dourish.com&#x2F;goodies&#x2F;jargon.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dourish.com&#x2F;goodies&#x2F;jargon.html</a><p><pre><code>  &quot;This file, jargon.txt, was maintained on MIT-AI for many years, before being published by Guy Steele and others as the Hacker&#x27;s Dictionary. Many years after the original book went out of print, Eric Raymond picked it up, updated it and republished it as the New Hacker&#x27;s Dictionary. Unfortunately, in the process, he essentially destroyed what held it together, in various ways: first, by changing its emphasis from Lisp-based to UNIX-based (blithely ignoring the distinctly anti-UNIX aspects of the LISP culture celebrated in the original); second, by watering down what was otherwise the fairly undiluted record of a single cultural group through this kind of mixing; and third, by adding in all sorts of terms which are &quot;jargon&quot; only in the sense that they&#x27;re technical. This page, however, is pretty much the original, snarfed from MIT-AI around 1988.&quot;</code></pre>