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boxed comments n. Comments (explanatory notes attached to program instructions) that occupy several lines by themselve
o called because in assembler and C code they are often surrounded by...
boxen /bok'sn/ pl.n. [very common; by analogy with VAXen] Fanciful plural of box often encountered in the phrase `Unix boxen', used to describe commodity Unix hardware.
The connotation i...
boxology /bok-sol'*-jee/ n. Syn. ASCII art. This term implies a more restricted domain, that of box-and-arrow drawings.
His report has a lot of boxology in it." Compare macrology....
bozotic /boh-zoh'tik/ or /boh-zo'tik/ adj. [from the name of a TV clown even more losing than Ronald McDonald] Resembling or having the quality of a bozo
hat is, clownish, ludicrously w...
BQS /B-Q-S/ adj. Syn. Berkeley Quality Software.
brain dump n. [common] The act of telling someone everything one knows about a particular topic or project.
Typically used when someone is going to let a new party maintain a piece of cod...
brain fart n. The actual result of a braino, as opposed to the mental glitch that is the braino itself.
E.g., typing dir on a Unix box after a session with DOS....
brain-damaged adj. 1. [common; generalization of `Honeywell Brain Damage' (HBD), a theoretical disease invented to explain certain utter cretinisms in Honeywell Multics] adj.
Obviously wro...
brain-dead adj. [common] Brain-damaged in the extreme.
It tends to imply terminal design failure rather than malfunction or simple stupidity....
braino /bray'no/ n. Syn. for thinko. See also brain fart.

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