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  d.c for any unexpected behavior of a C compiler on encountering an undefined construct....
• vaxocentrism /vak`soh-sen'trizm/ n. [analogy with `ethnocentrism'] A notional disease said to afflict C programmers who persist in coding according to certain assumptions that are valid (esp.
  under Unix) on VAXen but false elsewhere. Among these are...
• back door n. [common] A hole in the security of a system deliberately left in place by designers or maintainers.
  The motivation for such holes is not always siniste...
• A C compiler ? You call THAT a C compiler ?
• macro /mak'roh/ n. [techspeak] A name (possibly followed by a formal arg list) that is equated to a text or symbolic expression to which it is to be expanded (possibly with the substitution of actual arguments) by a macro expander.
  This definition can be found in any technical dictionary...
• Unobfuscated Perl (#1) A rogue group of Perl hackers has presented a plan to add a "use really_goddamn_strict" pragma that would enforce readability and UNobfuscation.
  With this pragma in force, the Perl compiler might say...
• YKYBHTLW: // Abbreviation of `You know you've been hacking too long when.
  ..', which became established on the USENET group alt....
• YKYBHTLW // abbrev. Abbreviation of `You know you've been hacking too long when.
  ..', which became established on the Usenet group alt....
• Pascal n. An Algol-descended language designed by Niklaus Wirth on the CDC 6600 around 1967-68 as an instructional tool for elementary programming.
  This language, designed primarily to keep students from shooting themselves in the foot and thus extremely restrictive from a general-purpose-programming point of view, was later promoted as a general-purpose tool and, in fact, became the ancestor of a large family of languages including Modula-2 and Ada (see also bondage-and-discipline l summed up by a devastating (and, in its deadpan way, screamingly funny) 1981 paper by Brian Kernighan (of K&...