GLS

Meaning of GLS in English

Guy Lewis Steele, Jr.

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GLS — Airport Name : Scholes International Airport at Galveston Airport Location : Galveston, Texas, United States IATA Code : GLS ICAO …
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GLS — generalized least square
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SCHOLES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AT GALVESTON — Airport Name : Scholes International Airport at Galveston Airport Location : Galveston, Texas, United States IATA Code : GLS ICAO …
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KGLS — Airport Name : Scholes International Airport at Galveston Airport Location : Galveston, Texas, United States IATA Code : GLS ICAO …
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SAGA — < jargon > (WPI) A cuspy but bogus raving story about N random broken people. Here is a classic example …
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PHASE OF THE MOON — Used humorously as a random parameter on which something is said to depend. Sometimes implies unreliability of whatever is dependent, …
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MOUSE ELBOW — < jargon , medical > A tennis-elbow-like fatigue syndrome resulting from excessive use of a WIMP . Similarly, "mouse shoulder". …
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EMOTICON — /ee-moh'ti-kon/ An ASCII glyph used to indicate an emotional state in electronic mail or news . Although originally intended mostly …
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COMPUTER CONFETTI — < jargon > (Or " chad ") A common term for punched-card chad , which, however, does not make good …
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CDR — /ku'dr/ or /kuh'dr/ [LISP] To skip past the first item from a list of things (generalised from the LISP operation …
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CANONICAL — (Historically, "according to religious law") 1. < mathematics > A standard way of writing a formula. Two formulas such as …
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CANDYGRAMMAR — A programming-language grammar that is mostly syntactic sugar ; the term is also a play on "candygram". COBOL , Apple …
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BUCKY BITS — /buh'kee bits/ 1. Obsolete. The bits produced by the CONTROL and META shift keys on a SAIL keyboard ( octal …
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TLAS — < jargon > As of 2003-11-10, this dictionary gave expansions for 1218 out of the 26^3 = 17576 possible three-letter …
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TECO — < editor , text > /tee'koh/ (Originally an acronym for "[paper] Tape Editor and COrrector"; later, "Text Editor and COrrector"]) …
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MAGIC SWITCH STORY — Some years ago, I was snooping around in the cabinets that housed the MIT AI Lab 's PDP-10 , and …
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MIT AI LAB — < body > ( Massachusetts Institute of Technology artificial intelligence laboratory) Workplace of many famous AI researchers at MIT including …
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HIGH PERFORMANCE FORTRAN — < language > (HPF) A data parallel language extension to Fortran 90 which provides a portable programming interface for a …
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GUY LEWIS STEELE, JR. — < person > (GLS) A software engineer whose most notable contributions to the art of computing include the design of …
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GET A REAL COMPUTER! — < jargon > A typical hacker response to news that somebody is having trouble getting work done on a toy …
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DUFF'S DEVICE — The most dramatic use yet seen of fall through in C , invented by Tom Duff when he was at …
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-OID — < jargon > (from "android") A suffix used as in mainstream English to indicate a poor imitation, a counterfeit, or …
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USER — 1. Someone doing `real work' with the computer, using it as a means rather than an end. Someone who pays …
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PHASE OF THE MOON — Used humorously as a random parameter on which something is said to depend. Sometimes implies unreliability of whatever is dependent, …
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MOUSE ELBOW — A tennis-elbow-like fatigue syndrome resulting from excessive use of a WIMP environment . Similarly, `mouse shoulder'; GLS reports that he …
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FUCK ME HARDER — Sometimes uttered in response to egregious misbehavior, esp. in software, and esp. of misbehaviors which seem unfairly persistent (as though …
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EMOTICON — [common] An ASCII glyph used to indicate an emotional state in email or news. Although originally intended mostly as jokes, …
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COMPUTER CONFETTI — Syn. chad . Though this term is common, this use of punched-card chad is not a good idea, as the …
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CDR — [from LISP] To skip past the first item from a list of things (generalized from the LISP operation on binary …
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