Fortrash /for'trash/ n.
Hackerism for the FORTRAN (FORmula TRANslator) language,
referring to its primitive design, gross and irregular syntax,
limited control constructs, and slippery, exception-filled
semantics.
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fortune cookie n.
[WAITS, via Unix; common] A random quote, item of trivia,
joke, or maxim printed to the user's tty at login time or (less
commonly) at logout time. Items from this lexicon have often been
used as fortune cookies. See cookie
file.