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Write-only Code N. [a Play On `read-only Memory'] Code So Arcane
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write-only code n.
[a play on `read-only memory'] Code
so arcane, complex, or ill-structured that it cannot be modified or
even comprehended by anyone but its author, and possibly not even
by him/her. A Bad Thing.
Related:
write-only code: [a play on `read-only memory'] n. Code so arcane
complex, or ill-structured that it cannot be modified or even comprehended by anyone but its author, and possibly not even by him/her....
Good Thing n.,adj. [very common; often capitalized
always pronounced as if capitalized.] 1. Self-evidently wonderful to anyone in a position to notice...
WROM: Write to Read Only Memory
Good Thing: n.,adj. Often capitalized; always pronounced as if capitalized.
1. Self-evidently wonderful to anyone in a position to notice...
blow an EPROM /bloh *n ee'prom/ v. (alt. `blast an EPROM', `burn an EPROM') To program a read-only memory, e.
g. for use with an embedded system. This term arose because the programming process for the Programmable Read-Only Memories (PROMs) that preceded present-day Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memories (EPROMs) involved intentionally blowing tiny electrical fuses on the chip....
blow an EPROM: /bloh *n ee'prom/ v. (alt. `blast an EPROM', `burn an EPROM') To program a read-only memory, e.
g. for use with an embedded system. This term arose because the programming process for the Programmable Read-Only Memories (PROMs) that preceded present-day Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memories (EPROMs) involved intentionally blowing tiny electrical fuses on the chip....
RTFB /R-T-F-B/ imp. [Unix] Abbreviation for `Read The Fucking Binary'.
Used when neither documentation nor source for the problem at hand exists, and the only thing to do is use some debugger or monitor and directly analyze the assembler or even the machine code....
RTFB: /R-T-F-B/ [UNIX] imp. Acronym for `Read The Fucking Binary'.
Used when neither documentation nor source for the problem at hand exists, and the only thing to do is use some debugger or monitor and directly analyze the assembler or even the machine code....
code monkey n 1. A person only capable of grinding out code, but unable to perform the higher-primate tasks of software architecture, analysis, and design.
Mildly insulting. Often applied to the most junior people on a programming team....