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• overflow pdl n. [MIT] The place where you put things when your PDL is full.
  If you don't have one and too many things get pushed, you forget something....
• Hey, diddle, diddle the overflow pdl To get a little more stack
  If that's not enough then you lose it all And have to pop all the way back....
• ack n. The set of things a person has to do in the future.
  One speaks of the next project to be attacked as having risen to the top of the stack....
• pop: /pop/ [from the operation that removes the top of a stack, and the fact that procedure return addresses are usually saved on the stack] (also capitalized `POP') 1.
  vt. To remove something from a {stack} or {pdl}....
• push: [from the operation that puts the current information on a stack
  and the fact that procedure return addresses are saved on a stack] (Also PUSH /push/ or PUSHJ /push'J/, the latter based on the PDP-10 procedure call instruction....
• PDL /P-D-L/, /pid'l/, /p*d'l/ or /puhd'l/ 1. n. `Program Design Language'.
  Any of a large class of formal and profoundly useless pseudo-languages in which management forces one to design programs....
• pop /pop/ [from the operation that removes the top of a stack, and the fact that procedure return addresses are usually saved on the stack] (also capitalized `POP') 1.
  vt. To remove something from a stack or PDL. If a person says he/she has popped something from his stack, that means he/she has finally finished working on it and can now remove it from the list of things hanging overhead....
• push [from the operation that puts the current information on a stack
  and the fact that procedure return addresses are saved on a stack] (Also PUSH /push/ or PUSHJ /push'J/, the latter based on the PDP-10 procedure call instruction....
• buffer overflow: n. What happens when you try to stuff more data into a buffer (holding area) than it can handle.
  This may be due to a mismatch in the processing rates of the producing and consuming processes (see {overrun} and {firehose syndrome}), or because the buffer is simply too small to hold all the data that must accumulate before a piece of it can be processed....