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mandelbug /man'del-buhg/ n. [from the Mandelbrot set] A bug whose underlying causes are so complex and obscure as to make its behavior appear chaotic or even non-deterministic.
This term ...
manged /mahnjd/ n. [probably from the French `manger' or Italian `mangiare', to ea
perhaps influenced by English `mange', `mangy'] adj....
mangle vt. 1. Used similarly to mung or scribble, but more violent in its connotatio
omething that is mangled has been irreversibly and totally trashed....
mangled name n. A name, appearing in a C++ object file, that is a coded representation of the object declaration as it appears in the source.
Mangled names are used because C++ allows mul...
mangler n. [DEC] A manager. Compare management.
Note that system mangler is somewhat different in connotation....
manularity /man`yoo-la'ri-tee/ n. [prob. fr.
marbles pl.n. [from mainstream "lost all his/her marbles"] The minimum needed to build your way further up some hierarchy of tools or abstractions.
After a bad system crash, you need to d...
marginal adj. [common] 1. [techspeak] An extremely small change.
A marginal increase in core can decrease GC time drastically....
Marginal Hacks n. Margaret Jacks Hall, a building into which the Stanford AI Lab was moved near the beginning of the 1980s (from the D.
C. Power Lab)....
marginally adv. Slightly. "The ravs here are only marginally better than at Small Eating Place.
See epsilon....

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