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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Cookbook \Cook"book`\ (-b[oo^]k`), n. A book of directions and receipts for cooking; a cookery book. [U.S.] ``Just How'': a key to the cookbooks. --Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: cookbook n : a book of recipes and cooking directions [syn: {cookery book}] From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]: cookbook n. [from amateur electronics and radio] A book of small code segments that the reader can use to do various {magic} things in programs. One current example is the "{{PostScript}} Language Tutorial and Cookbook" by Adobe Systems, Inc (Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-10179-3), also known as the {Blue Book} which has recipes for things like wrapping text around arbitrary curves and making 3D fonts. Cookbooks, slavishly followed, can lead one into {voodoo programming}, but are useful for hackers trying to {monkey up} small programs in unknown languages. This function is analogous to the role of phrasebooks in human languages. From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: cookbook(From amateur electronics and radio) A book of small code segments that the reader can use to do various {magic} things in programs. One current example is the "{PostScript} Language Tutorial and Cookbook" by Adobe Systems, Inc (Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-10179-3), also known as the {Blue Book} which has recipes for things like wrapping text around arbitrary curves and making 3D fonts. Cookbooks, slavishly followed, can lead one into {voodoo programming}, but are useful for hackers trying to {monkey up} small programs in unknown languages. This function is analogous to the role of phrasebooks in human languages. [{Jargon File}] (1994-11-04)
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