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RE: I found where to download NT Resource Kit
- To: "Clark Sims" <csims at templartrading dot com>, "Charles S. Wilson" <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>
- Subject: RE: I found where to download NT Resource Kit
- From: "Paul K Gleske" <pkg at gleske dot org>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 16:47:03 -0400
- Cc: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
> What does groks mean?
Grok. http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=grok
grok (grk)
tr.v. Slang grok·ked, grok·king, groks
To understand profoundly through intuition or empathy.
[Coined by Robert A. Heinlein in his Stranger in a Strange Land.]
Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth
Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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grok
/grok/, /grohk/ (From the novel "Stranger in a Strange Land", by Robert A.
Heinlein, where it is a Martian word meaning literally "to drink" and
metaphorically "to be one with")
1. To understand, usually in a global sense. Connotes intimate and
exhaustive knowledge.
Contrast zen, which is similar supernal understanding experienced as a
single brief flash. See also glark.
2. Used of programs, may connote merely sufficient understanding. "Almost
all C compilers grok the "void" type these days."
[Jargon File]
(1995-01-31)
Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2001 Denis Howe
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I thought all programmers needed to know this. Especially any Unix geeks.
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