May 15, 2003

I see no X here.

Hackers (and the interactive computer games they write) traditionally favor this slightly marked usage over other possible equivalents such as There's no X here! or X is missing. or Where's the X?. This goes back to the original PDP-10 ADVENT, which would respond in this wise if you asked it to do something involving an object not present at your location in the game.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:42 AM

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