Talk:Computer jargon

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This article was nominated for deletion on 23/2/2006. The result of the discussion was keep.

Any chance Eric Raymond could be persuaded to add the content to Wikipedia? Just a thought.

I doubt he'd do it personally, but the text is already in the public domain. http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/mirroring.html -- GWO

Someone with server side access to Wikipedia (Larry Sanger? Jimbo Wales?) could easily add the whole thing automatically; but those people would probably say 'Wikipedia is not a dictionary'.

On the other hand, some of the material from the appendicies could probably be incorporated in an article on hackers. -- Simon J Kissane

A lot of the content here is already available at List of computing and IT abbreviations, which I've worked on. I think these two articles should probably cross-link. Dataphile 07:57, Aug 14, 2004 (UTC)

Should the search enquiry "computerese" be redirected to this page?[edit]

I wonder why the search enquiry computerese doesn't redirect to the page about "computer jargon"? It just returns as Article Not Found.

not jargon[edit]

A lot of these entries are not jargon. Things like: Hypertext, Interface, LIFO are the standard technical terms for the things they apply to - they are terminology. Jargon should be reserved for stuff like ID10T error, KISS, which are informal usage. --Pfold 14:15, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Also[edit]

There is a secret society called The Secret Society of Jargon

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