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• mod vt.,n. [very common] 1. Short for `modify' or `modification'.
  Very commonly used -- in fact the full terms are considered markers that one is being formal....
• diff: /dif/ n. 1. A change listing, especially giving differences between (and additions to) source code or documents (the term is often used in the plural `diffs').
  Send me your diffs for the Jargon File!" Compare {vdiff}....
• heology: n. 1. Ironically or humorously used to refer to {religious issues}.
  2. Technical fine points of an abstruse nature, esp....
• diff /dif/ n. 1. A change listing, especially giving differences between (and additions to) source code or documents (the term is often used in the plural `diffs').
  Send me your diffs for the Jargon File!" Compare vdiff....
• ale pointer bug: n. Synonym for {aliasing bug} used esp.
  among microcomputer hackers. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• core dump: n. [common {Iron Age} jargon, preserved by UNIX] 1.
  [techspeak] A copy of the contents of {core}, produced when a process is aborted by certain kinds of internal error....
• zap: 1. n. Spiciness. 2. vt. To make food spicy. 3.
  vt. To make someone `suffer' by making his food spicy....
• chase pointers: 1. vi. To go through multiple levels of indirection, as in traversing a linked list or graph structure.
  Used esp. by programmers in C, where explicit pointers are a very common data type....
• glitch: /glich/ [from German `glitschen' to slip, via Yiddish `glitshen', to slide or skid] 1.
  . A sudden interruption in electric service, sanity, continuity, or program function....