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• crock n. [from the American scatologism `crock of shit'] 1.
  An awkward feature or programming technique that ought to be made cleaner....
• crock: [from the American scatologism `crock of shit'] n.
  1. An awkward feature or programming technique that ought to be made cleaner....
• The genetic code does not, and cannot, specify the nature and position of every capillary in the body or every neuron in the brain.
  What it {can} do is describe the underlying fractal pattern which creates them....
• black magic n. [common] A technique that works, though nobody really understands why.
  More obscure than voodoo programming, which may be black art, deep magic, and...
• Voodoo Programming: Things programmers do that they know shouldn't work but they try anyway, and which sometimes actually work, such as recompiling everything.
  -- Karl Lehenbaue...
• Quote #605 Voodoo Programming: Things programmers do that they know shouldn't work but they try anyway, and which sometimes actually work, such as recompiling everything.
  -- Karl Lehenbaue...
• Real Programmers think structured programming is a Communist plot.
• Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.