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• break-even point n. In the process of implementing a new computer language, the point at which the language is sufficiently effective that one can implement the language in itself.
  That is, for a new language called, hypothetically, FOOGOL, one has reached break-even when one can write a demonstration compiler for FOOGOL in FOOGOL, discard the original implementation language, and thereafter use working versions of FOOGOL to develop newer ones....
• break-even point: n. in the process of implementing a new computer language, the point at which the language is sufficiently effective that one can implement the language in itself.
  That is, for a new language called, hypothetically, FOOGOL, one has reached break-even when one can write a demonstration compiler for FOOGOL in FOOGOL, discard the original implementation language, and thereafter use working versions of FOOGOL to develop newer ones....
• asal demons n. Recognized shorthand on the Usenet group comp.
  d.c for any unexpected behavior of a C compiler on encountering an undefined construct....
• asal demons: n. Recognized shorthand on the USENET group comp.
  d.c for any unexpected behavior of a C compiler on encountering an undefined construct....
• MFTL /M-F-T-L/ [abbreviation: `My Favorite Toy Language'] 1.
  adj. Describes a talk on a programming language design that is heavy on the syntax (with lots of BNF), sometimes even talks about semantics (e....
• Is it really you, Fuzz, or is it Memorex, or is it radiation sickness?
  -- A Disney construct who can resemble anyone revels in his crimes -- in SONIC DISRUPTORS...
• vaxocentrism /vak`soh-sen'trizm/ n. [analogy with `ethnocentrism'] A notional disease said to afflict C programmers who persist in coding according to certain assumptions that are valid (esp.
  under Unix) on VAXen but false elsewhere. Among these are...
• lint(1) is the compiler's only means of dampening the programmer's ego.
• 0440 Can you write a Fortran compiler? 0441 ... In TECO? -- from THE HACKER TEST