@bytebro

In fairness, Robert Anson Heinlein was known for having views, too, so you would have been tarred by association with a Heinleinism before now. Or by association with Eric S Raymond, also with views, for using the Hacker's Dictionary definition. (-:

I do wonder how many people who write TANSTAAFL instead of TINSTAAFL actually use "ain't no" in their everyday speech, or would actually criticize a double negative if it were someone else writing one.

#JargonFile #Heinlein #RAH #EnglishLanguage

@evolvable

Alas, it is the IT profession that is guilty the most of using such terminology, so it is no wonder that non-IT people adopt it too.

But the IT profession still goes around habitually calling things with no motors in them, "drives".

Moreover, making up bad slang names for things is so celebrated that people even venerate the Jargon File/Hackers' Dictionary.

#AI #JargonFile #HackersDictionary

@blacklight @DrHyde @tyil The #JargonFile started being passed around and accumulating entries through the 1970s at #Stanford, #MIT, #CarnegieMellon, Bolt Beranek and Newman, and other pre-Internet computing centers. Some terms date back to the late 1950s MIT Tech Model Railroad Club, a very early progenitor of #hacker culture.

Far more than you ever wanted to know here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jargon_File

#SAIL #CSAIL #CMU #BBN #ARPANET #AI #Lisp #TMRC