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by Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> One fine day in January 2017 I was reminded of something I had half-noticed a few times over the previous decade. That is, younger hackers don’t know the bit structure of ASCII and the meaning of the odder control characters in it. This is knowledge every fledgling hacker used to absorb through their pores. It’s nobody’s fault this changed; the obsolescence of hardware terminals and the near-obsolescence of the RS-232 protocol is what did it. Tools generate culture; sometimes, when a tool becomes obsolete, a bit of cultural commonality quietly evaporates. It can be difficult to notice that this has happened. This document is a collection of facts about ASCII and related technologies, notably hardware terminals and RS-232 and modems. This is lore that was at one time near-universal and is no longer. It’s not likely to be dire...
gensym Prev G Next gensym : /jen´sim/ [from MacLISP for generated symbol ] 1. v. To invent a new name for something temporary, in such a way that the name is almost certainly not in conflict with one already in use. 2. n. The resulting name. The canonical form of a gensym is ‘Gnnnn’ where nnnn represents a number; any LISP hacker would recognize G0093 (for example) as a gensym. 3. A freshly generated data structure with a gensymmed name. Gensymmed names are useful for storing or uniquely identifying crufties (see cruft ). Prev Up Next Genius From Mars Technique Home Get a life!...
The Cathedral and the Bazaar Next Thyrsus Enterprises < esr@thyrsus.com > This is version 3.0 Copyright © 2000 Eric S. Raymond Copyright Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the Open Publication License, version 2.0. $Date: 2002/08/02 09:02:14 $ Revision History Revision 1.57 11 September 2000 esr New major section ``How Many Eyeballs Tame Complexity''. Revision 1.52 28 August 2000 esr MATLAB is a reinforcing parallel to Emacs. Corbatoó & Vyssotsky got it in 1965. Revision 1.51 24 August 2000 esr First DocBook version. Minor updates to Fall 2000 on the time-sensitive material. Revision 1.49 5 May 2000 esr Added the HBS note on deadlines and scheduling. Revision 1.51 31 August 1999 esr This the version that O'Reilly printed in the first edition of the book. Revision 1.45 8 August 1999 esr Added the endnot...