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clone n. 1. An exact duplicate: "Our product is a clone of their product.
Implies a legal reimplementation from documentation or by reverse-engineering....
clone-and-hack coding n. [DEC] Syn. case and paste.
clover key n. [Mac users] See feature key.
clue-by-four [Usenet: portmanteau, clue + two-by-four] The notional stick with which one whacks an aggressively clueless person.
This term derives from a western American folk saying abou...
clustergeeking /kluh'st*r-gee`king/ n. [CMU] Spending more time at a computer cluster doing CS homework than most people spend breathing.
coaster n. 1. Unuseable CD produced during failed attempt at writing to writeable or re-writeable CD media.
Certainly related to the coaster-like shape of a CD, and the relative value of...
COBOL /koh'bol/ n. [COmmon Business-Oriented Language] (Synonymous with evil.
COBOL fingers /koh'bol fing'grz/ n. Reported from Sweden, a (hypothetical) disease one might get from coding in COBOL.
The language requires code verbose beyond all reason (see candygramm...
cobweb site n. A World Wide Web Site that hasn't been updated so long it has figuratively grown cobwebs.
code n. The stuff that software writers write, either in source form or after translation by a compiler or assembler.
Often used in opposition to "data", which is the stuff that code ope...

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