meaning of glisp
1. Glisp Generalized LISP. D. C. Smith, Aug 1990. A coordinated set of high-level syntaxes for Common LISP. Contains Mlisp, Plisp and ordinary LISP, with an extensible framework for adding others. Written in Plisp. ftp://bric-a-brac. apple. com/dts/mac/lisp. glitch /glich/ [German "glitschen" to slip, via Yiddish "glitshen", to slide or skid] 1. Electronics When the inputs of a circuit change, and the outputs change to some random value for some very brief time before they settle down to the correct value. If another circuit inspects the output at just the wrong time, reading the random value, the results can be very wrong and very hard to debug a glitch is one of many causes of electronic heisenbugs. 2. A sudden interruption in electric service, sanity, continuity, or program function. Sometimes recoverable. An interruption in electric service is specifically called a "power glitch" or power hit, of grave concern because it usually crashes all the computers. See also gritch. 2. [Stanford] To scroll a display screen, especially several lines at a time. WAITS terminals used to do this in order to avoid continuous scrolling, which is distracting to the eye. 4. Obsolete. Same as magic cookie. [Jargon File] glob /glob/, *not* /glohb/ To expand wild card characters in a path name. In Unix the file name wild cards are: * = zero or more characters E. g. UN*X ? = any single character [] any of the enclosed characters indicate alternation of comma-separated alternatives, thus foobaz,qux would expand to "foobaz" or "fooqux". This syntax generates a list of all possible expansions, rather than matching one. These have become sufficiently pervasive that hackers use them in written English, especially in electronic mail or Usenet news on technical topics. E. g. "He said his name was [KC]arl" expresses ambiguity. "I dont read talk. politics. *" any of the talk. politics subgroups on Usenet. Other examples are given under the entry for X. Note that glob patterns are similar, but not identical, to those used in regexps. "glob" was a subprogram that expanded wild cards in archaic pre-Bourne versions of the Unix shell.
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