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• crozzle /skroz'l/ vt. Used when a self-modifying code segment runs incorrectly and corrupts the running program or vital data.
  The damn compiler scrozzled itself again!...
• ampoline: n. An incredibly {hairy} technique, found in some {HLL} and program-overlay implementations (e.
  g., on the Macintosh), that involves on-the-fly generation of small executable (and, likely as not, self-modifying) code objects to do indirection between code sections....
• incantation: n. Any particularly arbitrary or obscure command that one must mutter at a system to attain a desired result.
  Not used of passwords or other explicit security features....
• English: 1. n.,obs. The source code for a program, which may be in any language, as opposed to the linkable or executable binary produced from it by a compiler.
  The idea behind the term is that to a real hacker, a program written in his favorite programming language is at least as readable as English....
• SMOP: /S-M-O-P/ [Simple (or Small) Matter of Programming] n.
  1. A piece of code, not yet written, whose anticipated length is significantly greater than its complexity....
• compress: [UNIX] vt. When used without a qualifier, generally refers to {crunch}ing of a file using a particular C implementation of compression by James A.
  Woods et al. and widely circulated via {USENET}...
• glork: /glork/ 1. interj. Term of mild surprise, usually tinged with outrage, as when one attempts to save the results of two hours of editing and finds that the system has just crashed.
  2. Used as a name for just about anything. See {foo}....
• massage: vt. Vague term used to describe `smooth' transformations of a data set into a different form, esp.
  ansformations that do not lose information. Connotes less pain than {munch} or {crunch}....
• dike: vt. To remove or disable a portion of something, as a wire from a computer or a subroutine from a program.
  A standard slogan is "When in doubt, dike it out"....