YELLOW BOOK, JARGON

  

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YELLOW BOOK, JARGON

Specialty Definition: YELLOW BOOK, JARGON

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Computing

Yellow Book, Jargon The print version of the Jargon File, titled "The New Hacker's Dictionary". It includes essentially all the material the File, plus a Foreword by Guy L. Steele, Jr. and a Preface by Eric S. Raymond. Most importantly, the book version is nicely typeset and includes almost all of the infamous Crunchly cartoons by the Great Quux, each attached to an appropriate entry. The first, second, and third editions correspond to versions 2.9.6, 3.0.0, and 4.0.0 of the File, respectively. ["The New Hacker's Dictionary", 3rd edition, MIT Press, 1996 (ISBN 0-262-68092-0)]. (1996-12-03). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: YELLOW BOOK, JARGON

Specialty definitions using "YELLOW BOOK, JARGON": Jargon File ♦ Yellow Book. (references)

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Alternative Orthography: YELLOW BOOK, JARGON


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

59 45 4C 4C 4F 57      42 4F 4F 4B 2C      4A 41 52 47 4F 4E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01011001 01000101 01001100 01001100 01001111 01010111 00100000 01000010 01001111 01001111 01001011 00101100 00100000 01001010 01000001 01010010 01000111 01001111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#89 &#69 &#76 &#76 &#79 &#87 &#32 &#66 &#79 &#79 &#75 &#44 &#32 &#74 &#65 &#82 &#71 &#79 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0059 0045 004C 004C 004F 0057      0042 004F 004F 004B 002C      004A 0041 0052 0047 004F 004E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

593946464957236494945142443552414948

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Orthography
3. Bibliography


  

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