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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
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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'.

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