h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Debugger - De guy who sold you de computer.

Cache - How you paid for systems in the days before credit cards.

Vulcan death grip - Control-Alt-Delete.

Come on folks, I'm sure there are lots more!

I did find an article called 'How to shoot yourself in the foot in 30(?) computer languages' or something to that effect. That was hilarious (if you're into that kind of thing). Somewhere I have one I started - 'How to grow carrots in 30 computer languages', though it didn't get far:

Basic - You program in a carrot and the system returns enough pasta to cure world famine (the original was 'you shoot yourself in the foot with a water pistol. On larger systems continue until entire lower body is waterlogged' - apparently Basic on 'big' machines didn't stop if it encountered an error)
Pascal - The compiler will only let you grow carrots if they're all the same size (my experience of Pascal is a bit limited...)
Browser(?) Java - you can grow carrots in sand, earth, peat and rocky outcrops, but you can't pick them and eat them
Javascript - you can grow carrots that change colour when you point to them

I think this exposes my limited experience of programming rather than any writing ability! I think the only other language I've any experience of is PHP, and I can't think of anything for that one yet.

http://www.cs.hut.fi/~tri/misc/mit_jargon.html

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I've finally got round to adding those to the list, cheers Peet.

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