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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>English</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../E.html" title="E"/><link rel="previous" href="engine.html" title="engine"/><link rel="next" href="enhancement.html" title="enhancement"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">English</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="engine.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">E</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="enhancement.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="English"/><dt xmlns="" id="English"><b>English</b></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. <span class="grammar">n. obs.</span> The source code for a
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program, which may be in any language, as opposed to the linkable or
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executable binary produced from it by a compiler. The idea behind the term
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is that to a real hacker, a program written in his favorite programming
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language is at least as readable as English. Usage: mostly by old-time
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hackers, though recognizable in context. Today the preferred shorthand is
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simply <a href="../S/source.html"><i class="glossterm">source</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. The official name of the database language used by the old Pick
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Operating System, actually a sort of crufty, brain-damaged SQL with
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delusions of grandeur. The name permitted
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<a href="../M/marketroid.html"><i class="glossterm">marketroid</i></a>s to say “<span class="quote">Yes, and you can program
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our computers in English!</span>” to ignorant <a href="../S/suit.html"><i class="glossterm">suit</i></a>s
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without quite running afoul of the truth-in-advertising laws.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="engine.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../E.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="enhancement.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">engine </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> enhancement</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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