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• patch pumpkin n. [Perl hackers] A notional token passed around among the members of a project.
  Possession of the patch pumpkin means one has the exclusive authority to make changes on the project's master source tree....
• bug n. An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, esp.
  one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature....
• one-liner wars n. A game popular among hackers who code in the language APL (see write-only language and line noi and/or useful routine in one line of operators chosen from APL's exceedingly hairy primitive set.
  A similar amusement was practiced among TECO hackers and is now popular among Perl aficionados....
• indent style n. [C, C++, and Java programmers] The rules one uses to indent code in a readable fashion.
  There are four major C indent styles, described below...
• one-liner wars: n. A game popular among hackers who code in the language APL (see {write-only language} and {line noise}).
  The objective is to see who can code the most interesting and/or useful routine in one line of operators chosen from APL's exceedingly {hairy} primitive set....
• languages of choice n. C, C++, LISP, and Perl.
  Nearly every hacker knows one of C or LISP, and most good ones are fluent in both....
• bit-paired keyboard n.,obs. (alt. `bit-shift keyboard') A non-standard keyboard layout that seems to have originated with the Teletype ASR-33 and remained common for several years on early computer equipment.
  The ASR-33 was a mechanical device (see EOU), so the only way to generate the character codes from keystrokes was by some physical linkage....
• 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....
• 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...