Comment by DonaldPShimoda

Comment by DonaldPShimoda 5 days ago

> Grok (which unlike prism wasn't a common word)

"Grok" was a term used in my undergrad CS courses in the early 2010s. It's been a pretty common word in computing for a while now, though the current generation of young programmers and computer scientists seem not to know it as readily, so it may be falling out of fashion in those spaces.

Fnoord 5 days ago

Wikipedia about Groklaw [1]

> Groklaw was a website that covered legal news of interest to the free and open source software community. Started as a law blog on May 16, 2003, by paralegal Pamela Jones ("PJ"), it covered issues such as the SCO-Linux lawsuits, the EU antitrust case against Microsoft, and the standardization of Office Open XML.

> Its name derives from "grok", roughly meaning "to understand completely", which had previously entered geek slang.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groklaw

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varjag 4 days ago

Grok was specifically coined by Heinlein in _Stranger in a Strange Land_. It's been used in nerd circles for decades before your undergrad times but was never broadly known.

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DonaldPShimoda 3 days ago

I'm aware of the provenance; I was specifically addressing the parent comment's assertion that it is not "a common word". It's a well-known word in the realm of computing, though perhaps less these days as the upcoming generation seems less inclined to learn archaic pop culture.

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milleramp 5 days ago

He is referencing the book Stranger in a Strange Land, written in 1961.

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