Did you ever wonder what a “foo bar” is? Or a kluge?Me neither.But if you ever meet someone who does, point them to the Jargon File. It is an entity … a kind of database … that was started back in the 1970s with continuous updating and maintenance since. It is just geekizoid technobabble jargon, not other jargon. You can find it here.There are other versions of it available, including one in a tar ball, but interestingly, there are no Diff files. You can also FTP it here.

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