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• Saturday-night special n. [from police slang for a cheap handgun] A quick-and-dirty program or feature kluged together during off hou
  under a deadline, and in response to pressure from a salescritter....
• beta /bay't*/, /be't*/ or (Commonwealth) /bee't*/ n.
  1. Mostly working, but still under test; usu. used with `in'...
• kluge /klooj/ [from the German `klug', clever; poss.
  related to Polish `klucz' (a key, a hint, a main point)] 1....
• virus n. [from the obvious analogy with biological viruse
  via SF] A cracker program that searches out other programs and `infects' them by embedding a copy of itself in them, so that they become Trojan horses....
• wonkie /twon'kee/ n. The software equivalent of a Twinkie (a variety of sugar-loaded junk food, or (in gay slang with a small t) the male equivalent of `chick')
  a useless `feature' added to look sexy and placate a marketroid (compare Saturday-night special)....
• wonkie: /twon'kee/ n. The software equivalent of a Twinkie (a variety of sugar-loaded junk food, or (in gay slang) the male equivalent of `chick')
  a useless `feature' added to look sexy and placate a {marketroid} (compare {Saturday-night special})....
• 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....
• ot ready for prime time: adj. Usable, but only just so
  ot very robust; for internal use only. Said of a program or device....