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• crew: [MIT] n. A {lose}, usually in software. Especially used for user-visible misbehavior caused by a bug or misfeature.
  This use has become quite widespread outside MIT. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• win [MIT; now common everywhere] 1. vi. To succeed.
  A program wins if no unexpected conditions arise, or (especially) if it sufficiently robust to take exceptions in stride....
• win: [MIT] 1. vi. To succeed. A program wins if no unexpected conditions arise, or (especially) if it sufficiently {robust} to take exceptions in stride.
  2. n. Success, or a specific instance thereof....
• misfeature /mis-fee'chr/ or /mis'fee`chr/ n. [common] A feature that eventually causes lossage, possibly because it is not adequate for a new situation that has evolved.
  Since it results from a deliberate and properly implemented feature, a misfeature is not a bug....
• misfeature: /mis-fee'chr/ or /mis'fee`chr/ n. A feature that eventually causes lossage, possibly because it is not adequate for a new situation that has evolved.
  Since it results from a deliberate and properly implemented feature, a misfeature is not a bug....
• oftware rot n. Term used to describe the tendency of software that has not been used in a while to lose
  uch failure may be semi-humorously ascribed to bit rot....
• demon n. 1. [MIT] A portion of a program that is not invoked explicitly, but that lies dormant waiting for some condition(s) to occur.
  See daemon. The distinction is that demons are usually processes within a program, while daemons are usually programs running on an operating system....
• demon: n. 1. [MIT] A portion of a program that is not invoked explicitly, but that lies dormant waiting for some condition(s) to occur.
  See {daemon}. The distinction is that demons are usually processes within a program, while daemons are usually programs running on an operating system....
• 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....