Glark

2 definitions found

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  glark /glark/ vt. To figure something out from context. "The System III
     manuals are pretty poor, but you can generally glark the meaning from
     context." Interestingly, the word was originally `glork'; the context
     was "This gubblick contains many nonsklarkish English flutzpahs, but the
     overall pluggandisp can be glorked [sic] from context" (David Moser,
     quoted by Douglas Hofstadter in his "Metamagical Themas" column in the


     January 1981 "Scientific American"). It is conjectured that hacker usage
     mutated the verb to `glark' because {glork} was already an established
     jargon term (some hackers do report using the original term). Compare
     {grok}, {zen}.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  glark
       
          /glark/ To figure something out from context.  "The System III
          manuals are pretty poor, but you can generally glark the
          meaning from context."  Interestingly, the word was originally
          "glork"; the context was "This gubblick contains many
          nonsklarkish English flutzpahs, but the overall pluggandisp
          can be glorked [sic] from context" (David Moser, quoted by
          Douglas Hofstadter in his "Metamagical Themas" column in the
          January 1981 "Scientific American").  It is conjectured that
          hackish usage mutated the verb to "glark" because {glork} was
          already an established jargon term.
       
          Compare {grok}, {zen}.
       
          [{Jargon File}]