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• main loop n. The top-level control flow construct in an input- or event-driven program, the one which receives and acts or dispatches on the program's input.
  See also driver....
• driver: n. 1. The {main loop} of an event-processing program
  the code that gets commands and dispatches them for execution....
• off:: /N'rof/ [UNIX, from "new roff" (see {{troff}})] n.
  A companion program to the UNIX typesetter {{troff}}, accepting identical input but preparing output for terminals and line printers....
• driver n. 1. The main loop of an event-processing program
  he code that gets commands and dispatches them for execution....
• program: n. 1. A magic spell cast over a computer allowing it to turn one's input into error messages.
  2. An exercise in experimental epistemology. 3....
• Helen Keller mode: n. 1. State of a hardware or software system that is deaf, dumb, and blind, i.
  e., accepting no input and generating no output, usually due to an infinite loop or some other excursion into {deep space}....
• filter: [orig. {{UNIX}}, now also in {{MS-DOS}}] n.
  A program that processes an input data stream into an output data stream in some well-defined way, and does no I/O to anywhere else except possibly on error conditio...
• ad-hockery: /ad-hok'*r-ee/ [Purdue] n. 1. Gratuitous assumptions made inside certain programs, esp.
  expert systems, which lead to the appearance of semi-intelligent behavior but are in fact entirely arbitrary....
• ap: 1. n. A program interrupt, usually an interrupt caused by some exceptional situation in the user program.
  In most cases, the OS performs some action, then returns control to the program....