Jargon File v4.1.0

Stephen Williams writes "After a three-year break, Eric S. Raymond announces that a new version of the Jargon File (4.1.0) has been released. " Lots of new terms. The Slashdot Effect is actually in this time around, but as you old timers know, this is pretty good stuff, and you newbies should consider it required reading.

Comments

Re: Open Source?

[Gleef]

Nope, "Open Source" is not in there at all (neither is "Free" BTW, but "Copyleft" is). All in all an excellent upgrade of an already excellent work. Regardless of your opinion of how ESR handles the whole OSI thing, this is a good lexicon.

Just the changelog...

[Smack]

If you've read this before, you might want to just look at the Changelog. It has the full text of the new items. Keep up the good work, esr!

AI

[raistlinne]

I think that the stereotypes, even when untrue, lend something. They describe a certain mentality, if nothing else, that while one doesn't quite share in, one is still associated with by being in the culture. And if nothing else, it gives you an idea of what stereotypes people will expect you to fulfill. :-)

Did you do work in artificial intelligence? I'd like to talk more about your sig, if you'd like. my real email address should be in the heading of this.

ESR _is_ a coder

[raistlinne]

You forgot fetchmail. He's done an awful lot. it's sort of like how people forget that Bruce Perens wrote electric fence, as well as some other things. These people are in the positions that they are in for a good reason.