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• proglet: /prog'let/ [UK] n. A short extempore program written to meet an immediate, transient need.
  Often written in BASIC, rarely more than a dozen lines long, and containing no subroutines....
• oddy /nod'ee/ adj. [UK: from the children's books] 1.
  Small and un-useful, but demonstrating a point. Noddy programs are often written by people learning a new language or system....
• oddy: /nod'ee/ [UK: from the children's books] adj.
  1. Small and un-useful, but demonstrating a point....
• oy program n. 1. One that can be readily comprehended
  hence, a trivial program (compare noddy). 2. One for which the effort of initial coding dominates the costs through its life cycle....
• patch 1. n. A temporary addition to a piece of code, usually as a quick-and-dirty remedy to an existing bug or misfeature.
  A patch may or may not work, and may or may not eventually be incorporated permanently into the program....
• brute force adj. Describes a primitive programming style
  one in which the programmer relies on the computer's processing power instead of using his or her own intelligence to simplify the problem, often ignoring problems of scale and applying naive methods suited to small problems directly to large ones....
• oy program: n. 1. One that can be readily comprehended
  hence, a trivial program (compare {noddy}). 2....
• lop: n. 1. A one-sided {fudge factor}, that is, an allowance for error but in only one of two directions.
  For example, if you need a piece of wire 10 feet long and have to guess when you cut it, you make very sure to cut it too long, by a large amount if necessary, rather than too short by even a little bit, because you can always cut off the slop but you can't paste it back on again....
• lop n. 1. A one-sided fudge factor, that is, an allowance for error but in only one of two directions.
  For example, if you need a piece of wire 10 feet long and have to guess when you cut it, you make very sure to cut it too long, by a large amount if necessary, rather than too short by even a little bit, because you can always cut off the slop but you can't paste it back on again....