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• playpen n. [IBM] A room where programmers work. Compare salt mines.
• alt mines: n. Dense quarters housing large numbers of programmers working long hours on grungy projects, with some hope of seeing the end of the tunnel in N years.
  Noted for their absence of sunshine. Compare {playpen}, {sandbox}....
• alt mines n. Dense quarters housing large numbers of programmers working long hours on grungy projects, with some hope of seeing the end of the tunnel in N years.
  Noted for their absence of sunshine. Compare playpen, sandbox....
• andbox: n. 1. (also `sandbox, the') Common term for the R&D department at many software and computer companies (where hackers in commercial environments are likely to be found).
  Half-derisive, but reflects the truth that research is a form of creative play....
• ironmonger: [IBM] n. A hardware specialist (derogatory).
  Compare {sandbender}, {polygon pusher}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• yntactic salt: n. The opposite of {syntactic sugar}, a feature designed to make it harder to write bad code.
  Specifically, syntactic salt is a hoop the programmer must jump through just to prove that he knows what's going on, rather than to express a program action....
• ed wire: [IBM] n. Patch wires installed by programmers who have no business mucking with the hardware.
  It is said that the only thing more dangerous than a hardware guy with a code patch is a {softy} with a soldering iron....
• andbender: [IBM] n. A person involved with silicon lithography and the physical design of chips.
  Compare {ironmonger}, {polygon pusher}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• purple wire: [IBM] n. Wire installed by Field Engineers to work around problems discovered during testing or debugging.
  These are called `purple wires' even when (as is frequently the case) their actual physical color is yellow....