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• umber-crunching n. [common] Computations of a numerical nature, esp.
  hose that make extensive use of floating-point numbers....
• lint: [from UNIX's `lint(1)', named for the bits of fluff it supposedly picks from programs] 1.
  vt. To examine a program closely for style, language usage, and portability problems, esp....
• Berzerkeley: /b*r-zer'klee/ [from `berserk', via the name of a now-deceased record label] n.
  Humorous distortion of `Berkeley' used esp. to refer to the practices or products of the {BSD} UNIX hackers....
• lint [from Unix's lint(1), named for the bits of fluff it supposedly picks from programs] 1.
  vt. To examine a program closely for style, language usage, and portability problems, esp....
• heology: n. 1. Ironically or humorously used to refer to {religious issues}.
  2. Technical fine points of an abstruse nature, esp....
• hook: n. A software or hardware feature included in order to simplify later additions or changes by a user.
  For example, a simple program that prints numbers might always print them in base 10, but a more flexible version would let a variable determine what base to use...
• cycle crunch: n. A situation wherein the number of people trying to use a computer simultaneously has reached the point where no one can get enough cycles because they are spread too thin and the system has probably begun to {thrash}.
  This scenario is an inevitable result of Parkinson's Law applied to timesharing....
• hairy: adj. 1. Annoyingly complicated. "{DWIM} is incredibly hairy.
  2. Incomprehensible. "{DWIM} is incredibly hairy....
• 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}....