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• mart adj. Said of a program that does the Right Thing in a wide variety of complicated circumstances.
  There is a difference between calling a program smart and calling it intellige...
• obust: adj. Said of a system that has demonstrated an ability to recover gracefully from the whole range of exceptional inputs and situations in a given environment.
  One step below {bulletproof}. Carries the additional connotation of elegance in addition to just careful attention to detail....
• mart terminal: n. 1. A terminal that has enough computing capability to render graphics or to offload some kind of front-end processing from the computer it talks to.
  The development of workstations and personal computers has made this term and the product it describes semi-obsolescent, but one may still hear variants of the phrase `act like a smart terminal' used to describe the behavior of workstations or PCs with respect to programs that execute almost entirely out of a remote {server}'s storage, using said devices as displays....
• brute force adj. Describes a primitive programming style
  one in which the programmer relies on the computer's processing power instead of using his or her own intelligence to simplify the problem, often ignoring problems of scale and applying naive methods suited to small problems directly to large ones....
• An intelligent snake is a smart asp.
• flarp: /flarp/ [Rutgers University] n. Yet another {metasyntactic variable} (see {foo}).
  Among those who use it, it is associated with a legend that any program not containing the word `flarp' somewhere will not work....
• obust adj. Said of a system that has demonstrated an ability to recover gracefully from the whole range of exceptional inputs and situations in a given environment.
  One step below bulletproof. Carries the additional connotation of elegance in addition to just careful attention to detail....
• fragile: adj. Syn {brittle}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• demented: adj. Yet another term of disgust used to describe a program.
  The connotation in this case is that the program works as designed, but the design is bad....