Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ncar!boulder!sunybcs!bingvaxu!leah!bv3456 From: bv3456@leah.albany.edu (Victor @ The Concrete Museum) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: GROK THIS!! Keywords: grok Message-ID: <1289@leah.Albany.Edu> Date: 28 Nov 88 00:57:25 GMT Sender: bv3456@leah.Albany.Edu Lines: 20 In <191@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov>: > I have been using C for quite a while, and after doing > some admin work on our new Suns, I thought I might be > getting close to minor wizard status. Then when > installing the rn news reading software- a script said > it was trying to discover if my compiler "groks the void > type." I have no idea what this means. This being a decent > computer, I'm not sure if my compiler should be doing any > sort of groking to any type :-) > > Could anyone explain what a GROK is? (Some acronym?) If I remember correctly, R.A. Heinlein wrote a book in the early 60's called 'A Stranger in a Strange Land', which became sort of a cult hit. In the main character's language, to "grok" roughly meant to "understand". Apologies if I'm way off, but I think that's where I saw 'grok'. *** "Mr. Spock, you'd make an excellent computer." "Why Captain, that is most kind of you!"