Unix weenie: n. [ITS] 1. A derogatory play on `Unix wizard',
common among hackers who use Unix by necessity but would prefer
alternatives. The implication is that although the person in
question may consider mastery of Unix arcana to be a wizardly skill,
the only real skill involved is the ability to tolerate (and the bad
taste to wallow in) the incoherence and needless complexity that is
alleged to infest many Unix programs. "This shell script tries to
parse its arguments in 69 bletcherous ways. It must have been
written by a real Unix weenie." 2. A derogatory term for anyone who
engages in uncritical praise of Unix. Often appearing in the
context "stupid Unix weenie". See Weenix, Unix conspiracy. See
also weenie.
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