The New Hacker's Dictionary
Purple Book // n.
1. The "System V Interface Definition". The covers of the first editions were an amazingly nauseating shade of off-lavender.
2. syn. Wizard Book. Donald Lewine's "POSIX Programmer's Guide
purple wire // n.
[IBM] Wire installed by Field Engineers to work around problems discovered during testing or debugging. These are called 'purple wires' even when (as is frequently the case) their actual physical color is yellow.... Compare blue wire, yellow wire, and red wire.
push //
[from the operation that puts the current information on a stack, and the fact that procedure return addresses are saved on a stack] (Also PUSH /push/ or PUSHJ /push'J/, the latter based on the PDP-10 procedure call instruction.)
1. To put something onto a stack or PDL. If one says that something has been pushed onto one's stack, it means that the Damoclean list of things hanging over ones's head has grown longer and heavier yet. This may also imply that one will deal with it before other pending items; otherwise one might say that the thing was 'added to my queue'.
2. vi. To enter upon a digression, to save the current discussion for later. Antonym of pop; see also stack, PDL.
Python /pi:'thon/
In the words of its author, "the other scripting language" (other than Perl, that is). Python's design is notably clean, elegant, and well thought through; it tends to attract the sort of programmers who find Perl grubby and exiguous. Python's relationship with Perl is rather like the BSD community's relationship to Linux -- it's the smaller party in a (usually friendly) rivalry, but the average quality of its developers is generally conceded to be rather higher than in the larger community it competes with. There's a Python resource page at http://www.python.org. See also Guido.