I think it's 'grok'. From Robert Heinlein's sci-fi classic Stranger in a Strange Land. It means something like 'to understand fully'. Used a lot by tech/computer people to describe a level of understanding that comes after merely understanding something enough to use it. That thing that happens (sort of like the light bulb going off) when you really are at home with something. An understanding of the essential nature of something.

Stop me before I start quoting Heidegger...

The Jargon File has a good explanation (as usual.)
- jim 8-09-2001 7:42 pm
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Wow, thanks for the clue and quote baby quote - grok grok


- bill 8-09-2001 7:49 pm [2 comments]





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