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C Programmer's Disease n.
C++ /C'-pluhs-pluhs/ n. Designed by Bjarne Stroustrup of AT&
T Bell Labs as a successor to C....
calculator [Cambridge] n. Syn. for bitty box.
Camel Book n. Universally recognized nickname for the book "Programming Perl", by Larry Wall and Randal L.
Schwartz, O'Reilly and Associates 1991, ISBN 0-937175-64-1 (second edition 1996, ...
can vt. To abort a job on a time-sharing system.
Used esp. when the person doing the deed is an operator, as in "canned from the console"....
can't happen The traditional program comment for code executed under a condition that should never be true, for example a file size computed as negative.
Often, such a condition being true ...
cancelbot /kan'sel-bot/ [Usenet: compound, cancel + robot] 1.
Mythically, a robocanceller 2. In reality, most cancelbots are manually operated by being fed lists of spam message IDs....
Cancelmoose[tm] /kan'sel-moos/ [Usenet] The archetype and model of all good spam-fighters.
candygrammar n. A programming-language grammar that is mostly syntactic suga
he term is also a play on `candygram'....
canonical adj. [very common; historically, `according to religious law'] The usual or standard state or manner of something.
This word has a somewhat more technical meaning in mathematic...

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