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• 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...
• killer app The application that actually makes a sustaining market for a promising but under-utilized technology.
  First used in the mid-1980s to describe Lotus 1-2-3 once it became evident that demand for that product had been the major driver of the early business market for IBM PCs....
• buglix: /buhg'liks/ n. Pejorative term referring to {DEC}'s ULTRIX operating system in its earlier *severely* buggy versions.
  Still used to describe ULTRIX, but without nearly so much venom....
• buglix /buhg'liks/ n. [uncommon] Pejorative term referring to DEC's ULTRIX operating system in its earlier severely buggy versions.
  Still used to describe ULTRIX, but without nearly so much venom....
• Old programmers never die, they just become managers.
• like nailing jelly to a tree adj. Used to describe a task thought to be impossible, esp.
  one in which the difficulty arises from poor specification or inherent slipperiness in the problem domain....
• Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. LINCOLN
• hacker n. [originally, someone who makes furniture with an axe] 1.
  A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most users, who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary....