Category: slang

www.catb.org/jargon/html/p-convention.html

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/P/ping.html http://www.catb.org/jargon/jargbook.html – “The Jargon File” resp. “The New Hacker’s Dictionary” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jargon_File – that article has links to all generations of The Jargon File https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jargon_File#External_links : https://web.archive.org/web/20130827121341/http://cosman246.com/jargon.html – so far the youngest one

Looks like the Jargon File got abandoned by Eric S. Raymond.It hasn’t been updated during the last couple of years.I offered Eric to invest time and energy,but I got no answer back. Update 2012-12-25: I once owned a printed copy of this book, but it was one of the many victims of various accidents inside…