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• program, n: A magic spell cast over a computer allowing it to turn one's input into error messages.
  .v. To engage in a pastime similar to banging one's head against a wall, but with fewer opportunities for reward....
• 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....
• 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....
• programming: n. 1. The art of debugging a blank sheet of paper (or, in these days of on-line editing, the art of debugging an empty file).
  2. A pastime similar to banging one's head against a wall, but with fewer opportunities for reward....
• programming n. 1. The art of debugging a blank sheet of paper (or, in these days of on-line editing, the art of debugging an empty file).
  Bloody instructions which, being taught, return to plague their inventor" ("Macbeth", Act 1, Scene 7) 2....
• PROGRAM n. used to turn valid data into error message
• filter n. [very common; orig. Unix, now also in MS-DOS] 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...
• plumbing n. [Unix] Term used for shell code, so called because of the prevalence of `pipelines' that feed the output of one program to the input of another.
  Under Unix, user utilities can often be implemented or at least prototyped by a suitable collection of pipelines and temp-file grinding encapsulated in a shell scrip...
• plumbing: [UNIX] n. Term used for {shell} code, so called because of the prevalence of `pipelines' that feed the output of one program to the input of another.
  Under UNIX, user utilities can often be implemented or at least prototyped by a suitable collection of pipelines and temp-file grinding encapsulated in a shell scrip...