Jargons of Info Tech industry

CBFalconer cbfalconer at yahoo.com
Fri Aug 12 23:25:45 EDT 2005


axel at white-eagle.invalid.uk wrote:
> In comp.lang.perl.misc Xah Lee <xah at xahlee.org> wrote:
>
>> The other class of jargon stupidity is from computing practitioners,
>> of which the Unix/Perl community is exemplary. For example, the name
>> Unix & Perl themselves are good examples of buzzing jargons. Unix is
>> supposed to be opposed of Multics and hints on the offensive and
>> tasteless term eunuchs.
> 
> Now that connexion is a product of a truely warped mind.

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