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• udly adj. Impressive; powerful. Said of code and designs which exhibit both complexity and a virtuoso flair.
  Has connotations similar to hairy but is more positive in tone....
• gonzo: /gon'zoh/ [from Hunter S. Thompson] adj. Overwhelming
  outrageous; over the top; very large, esp. used of collections of source code, source files, or individual functions....
• loss: n. Something (not a person) that loses; a situation in which something is losing.
  Emphatic forms include `moby loss', and `total loss', `complete loss'....
• baroque: adj. Feature-encrusted; complex; gaudy; verging on excessive.
  Said of hardware or (esp.) software designs, this has many of the connotations of {elephantine} or {monstrosity} but is less extreme and not pejorative in itself....
• moby /moh'bee/ [MIT: seems to have been in use among model railroad fans years ago.
  Derived from Melville's "Moby Dick" (some say from `Moby Pickle')....
• one-liner wars: n. A game popular among hackers who code in the language APL (see {write-only language} and {line noise}).
  The objective is to see who can code the most interesting and/or useful routine in one line of operators chosen from APL's exceedingly {hairy} primitive set....
• gnarly: /nar'lee/ adj. Both {obscure} and {hairy} (sense 1).
  {Yow!} --- the tuned assembler implementation of BitBlt is really gnarly!...
• hairy: adj. 1. Annoyingly complicated. "{DWIM} is incredibly hairy.
  2. Incomprehensible. "{DWIM} is incredibly hairy....
• aive: adj. Untutored in the perversities of some particular program or system
  one who still tries to do things in an intuitive way, rather than the right way (in really good designs these coincide, but most designs aren't `really good' in the appropriate sense)....