Лексичні та синтактико-стилістичні зміни в сучасній англійській мові: вплив комп’ютерних технологій

hackishness /n./

The quality of being or involving a hack. This term is considered mildly silly.

Syn. hackitude.

hackitude /n./

Syn. hackishness; this word is considered sillier.

HAKMEM /hak'mem/ /n./ A 6-letterism for `hacks memo'A legendary collection of neat mathematical and programming hacks contributed by many people at MIT and elsewhere.

hakspek /hak'speek/ /n./ A shorthand method of spelling found on many British academic bulletin boards and talker systems. Syllables and whole words in a sentence are replaced by single ASCII characters the names of which are phonetically similar or equivalent, while multiple letters are usually dropped. Hence, `for' becomes `4'; `two', `too', and `to' become `2'; `ck' becomes `k'. "Before I see you tomorrow" becomes "b4 i c u 2moro". First appeared in London about 1986, and was probably caused by the slowness of available talker systems, which operated on archaic machines with outdated operating systems and no standard methods of communication. Has become rarer since. See also talk mode.

hand-hacking /n./

1. The practice of translating hot spots from an HLL into hand-tuned assembler, as opposed to trying to coerce the compiler into generating better code. Both the term and the practice are becoming uncommon. See tune, bum, by hand; syn. with /v./ cruft.

2. More generally, manual construction or patching of data sets that would normally be generated by a translation utility and interpreted by another program, and aren't really designed to be read or modified by humans.

haque /hak/ /n./

[Usenet] Variant spelling of hack, used only for the noun form and connoting an elegant hack.

hardwarily /hard-weir'*-lee/ /adv./

In a way pertaining to hardware. E.g.:"The system is hardwarily unreliable." The adjective `hardwary' is not traditionally used.

HLL /H-L-L/ /n./ [High-Level Language] Found primarily in email and news rather than speech. Rarely, the variants `VHLL' and `MLL' are found. VHLL stands for `Very-High-Level Language' and is used to describe Standard English that the speaker happens to like; Prolog and

Backus's FP are often called VHLLs. `MLL' stands for `Medium-Level Language' and is sometimes used half-jokingly to describe C, alluding to its `structured-assembler' image.

= I =IBM /I-B-M/ Inferior But Marketable; It's Better Manually; Insidious Black Magic; It's Been Malfunctioning; Incontinent Bowel Movement; and a near- infinite number of even less complimentary expansions, including `International Business Machines'. These abbreviations illustrate the considerable antipathy most hackers have long felt toward the `industry leader'. What galls hackers about most IBM machines above the PC level isn't so much that they are underpowered and overpriced (though that does count against them), but that the designs are incredibly archaic and one can't fix them -- source code is locked up tight, and programming tools are expensive, hard to find.

IBM discount /n./ A price increase. Outside IBM, this derives from the common perception that IBM products are generally overpriced.

INTERCAL /in't*r-kal/ /n./ [`Compiler Language With No Pronounceable Acronym'] A computer language designed by Don Woods and James Lyons in 1972. INTERCAL is purposely different from all other computer languages in all ways but one; it is purely a written language, being totally unspeakable.

Internet /n./ The mother of all networks, that absorbed into itself many of the proprietary networks built during the second wave of wide-area networking after 1980. It is now a commonplace even in mainstream media to predict that a globally-extended Internet will become the key unifying communications technology of the next century

Internet address /n./ [techspeak] An absolute network address of the form [email protected], where foo is a user name, bar is a sitename, and baz is a `domain' name, possibly including periods itself.