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• bread crumbs: n. Debugging statements inserted into a program that emit output or log indicators of the program's {state} to a file so you can see where it dies or pin down the cause of surprising behavior.
  The term is probably a reference to the Hansel and Gretel story from the Brothers Grimm...
• foo /foo/ 1. interj. Term of disgust. 2. [very common] Used very generally as a sample name for absolutely anything, esp.
  programs and files (esp. scratch files). 3. First on the standard list of metasyntactic variables used in syntax examples....
• wirling baton n. [PLATO] The overstrike sequence -/|\-/|\- which produces an animated twirling baton.
  If you output it with a single backspace between characters, the baton spins in place....
• COME FROM n. A semi-mythical language construct dual to the `go to'
  COME FROM <label> would cause the referenced label to act as a sort of trapdoor, so that if the program ever reached it control would quietly and automagically be transferred to the statement following the COME FROM....
• plumbing n. [Unix] Term used for shell code, so called because of the prevalence of `pipelines' that feed the output of one program to the input of another.
  Under Unix, user utilities can often be implemented or at least prototyped by a suitable collection of pipelines and temp-file grinding encapsulated in a shell scrip...
• plumbing: [UNIX] n. Term used for {shell} code, so called because of the prevalence of `pipelines' that feed the output of one program to the input of another.
  Under UNIX, user utilities can often be implemented or at least prototyped by a suitable collection of pipelines and temp-file grinding encapsulated in a shell scrip...
• bug n. An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, esp.
  one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature....
• line 666 [from Christian eschatological myth] n. The notional line of source at which a program fails for obscure reaso
  implying either that somebody is out to get it (when you are the programmer), or that it richly deserves to be so gotten (when you are not)....
• line 666: [from Christian eschatological myth] n. The notional line of source at which a program fails for obscure reaso
  implying either that *somebody* is out to get it (when you are the programmer), or that it richly deserves to be so gotten (when you are not)....