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• Moof: /moof/ [MAC users] 1. n. A semi-legendary creature, also called the `dogcow', that lurks in the depths of the Macintosh Technical Notes Hypercard stack V3.
  1; specifically, the full story of the dogcow is told in technical note #31 (the particular Moof illustrated is properly named `Clarus')....
• Moof /moof/ [Macintosh users] 1. n. The call of a semi-legendary creature, properly called the dogcow.
  (Some previous versions of this entry claimed, incorrectly, that Moof was the name of the creature....
• HAKMEM /hak'mem/ n. MIT AI Memo 239 (February 1972).
  A legendary collection of neat mathematical and programming hacks contributed by many people at MIT and elsewhere....
• Infinite-Monkey Theorem n. "If you put an infinite number of monkeys at typewriters, eventually one will bash out the script for Hamlet.
  (One may also hypothesize a small number of monkeys and a very long period of time....
• Infinite-Monkey Theorem: n. "If you put an {infinite} number of monkeys at typewriters, eventually one will bash out the script for Hamlet.
  (One may also hypothesize a small number of monkeys and a very long period of time....
• bit bucket n. [very common] 1. The universal data sink (originally, the mythical receptacle used to catch bits when they fall off the end of a register during a shift instruction).
  Discarded, lost, or destroyed data is said to have `gone to the bit bucket'....
• ack n. The set of things a person has to do in the future.
  One speaks of the next project to be attacked as having risen to the top of the stack....
• vaxocentrism /vak`soh-sen'trizm/ n. [analogy with `ethnocentrism'] A notional disease said to afflict C programmers who persist in coding according to certain assumptions that are valid (esp.
  under Unix) on VAXen but false elsewhere. Among these are...
• mash the stack n. [C programming] To corrupt the execution stack by writing past the end of a local array or other data structure.
  Code that smashes the stack can cause a return from the routine to jump to a random address, resulting in some of the most insidious data-dependent bugs known to mankind....