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chug vi. To run slowly; to grind or grovel. "The disk is chugging like crazy.
Church of the SubGenius n.
Cinderella Book [CMU] n. "Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation", by John Hopcroft and Jeffrey Ullman, (Addison-Wesley, 1979).
So called because the cover depicts a...
CI$ // n. Hackerism for `CIS', CompuServe Information Service.
The dollar sign refers to CompuServe's rather steep line charges....
Classic C /klas'ik C/ n. [a play on `Coke Classic'] The C programming language as defined in the first edition of K&
R, with some small additions. It is also known as `K&R C'. The...
clean 1. adj.
CLM /C-L-M/ [Sun: `Career Limiting Move'] 1. n. An action endangering one's future prospects of getting plum projects and raises, and possibly one's job
His Halloween costume was a parod...
clobber vt. To overwrite, usually unintentionally
I walked off the end of the array and clobbered the stack....
clock 1. n 1. [techspeak] The master oscillator that steps a CPU or other digital circuit through its paces.
This has nothing to do with the time of day, although the software counter tha...
clocks n. Processor logic cycles, so called because each generally corresponds to one clock pulse in the processor's timing.
The relative execution times of instructions on a machine are ...

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