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• Fortrash: /for'trash/ n. Hackerism for the FORTRAN (FORmula TRANslator) language
  eferring to its primitive design, gross and irregular syntax, limited control constructs, and slippery, exception-filled semantics....
• MFTL /M-F-T-L/ [abbreviation: `My Favorite Toy Language'] 1.
  adj. Describes a talk on a programming language design that is heavy on the syntax (with lots of BNF), sometimes even talks about semantics (e....
• write-only language n. A language with syntax (or semantics) sufficiently dense and bizarre that any routine of significant size is automatically write-only code.
  A sobriquet applied occasionally to C and often to APL, though INTERCAL and TECO certainly deserve it more....
• write-only language: n. A language with syntax (or semantics) sufficiently dense and bizarre that any routine of significant size is automatically {write-only code}.
  A sobriquet applied occasionally to C and often to APL, though {INTERCAL} and {TECO} certainly deserve it more....
• COME FROM n. A semi-mythical language construct dual to the `go to'
  COME FROM <label> would cause the referenced label to act as a sort of trapdoor, so that if the program ever reached it control would quietly and automagically be transferred to the statement following the COME FROM....
• PDL /P-D-L/, /pid'l/, /p*d'l/ or /puhd'l/ 1. n. `Program Design Language'.
  Any of a large class of formal and profoundly useless pseudo-languages in which management forces one to design programs....
• wart n. A small, crocky feature that sticks out of an otherwise clean design.
  Something conspicuous for localized ugliness, especially a special-case exception to a general rule....
• wart: n. A small, {crock}y {feature} that sticks out of an otherwise {clean} design.
  Something conspicuous for localized ugliness, especially a special-case exception to a general rule....
• IBM had a PL/I, Its syntax worse than JOSS
  And everywhere this language went, It was a total loss....