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• heavyweight: adj. High-overhead; {baroque}; code-intensive
  featureful, but costly. Esp. used of communication protocols, language designs, and any sort of implementation in which maximum generality and/or ease of implementation has been pushed at the expense of mundane considerations such as speed, memory utilization, and startup time....
• lightweight adj. Opposite of heavyweight; usually found in combining forms such as `lightweight process'.
• bulletproof adj. Used of an algorithm or implementation considered extremely robu
  lossage-resistant; capable of correctly recovering from any imaginable exception condition -- a rare and valued quality....
• lightweight: adj. Opposite of {heavyweight}; usually found in combining forms such as `lightweight process'.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• EMACS /ee'maks/ n. [from Editing MACroS] The ne plus ultra of hacker editors, a programmable text editor with an entire LISP system inside it.
  It was originally written by Richard Stallman in TECO under ITS at the MIT AI lab...
• baroque adj. [common] Feature-encrusted; complex
  gaudy; verging on excessive. Said of hardware or (esp....
• pawn n.,vi. 1. [techspeak] In UNIX parlance, to create a child process from within a process.
  Technically this is a `fork'; the term `spawn' is a bit more general and is used for threads (lightweight processes) as well as traditional heavyweight processes....
• baroque: adj. Feature-encrusted; complex; gaudy; verging on excessive.
  Said of hardware or (esp.) software designs, this has many of the connotations of {elephantine} or {monstrosity} but is less extreme and not pejorative in itself....
• moby /moh'bee/ [MIT: seems to have been in use among model railroad fans years ago.
  Derived from Melville's "Moby Dick" (some say from `Moby Pickle')....