meaning of zebra

1. Either one of two species of South African wild horses remarkable for having the body white or yellowish white, and conspicuously marked with dark brown or brackish bands.
2. ZEBRA A data management package in the CERN Program Library. Zed 1978. Software Portability Group, U Waterloo. Eh, with types added. Similar to C. Implementation language for the Thoth realtime operating system. Added a few simple types for greater efficiency on byte-addressed machines. String constants in case statements. Enforces the naming convention: MANIFESTS, Externals and locals. "Porting the Zed Compiler", G. B. Bonkowski et al, SIGPLAN Notices 148:92-97 Aug 1979. Zen [Kehoe, B. , "Zen and the Art of the Internet", February 1992. ] [Jargon File] zen To figure out something by meditation or by a sudden flash of enlightenment. Originally applied to bugs, but occasionally applied to problems of life in general. "Howd you figure out the buffer allocation problem?" "Oh, I zenned it. " Contrast grok, which connotes a time-extended version of zenning a system. Compare hack mode. See also guru.
3. any of several fleet black-and-white striped African equines

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