Related:

• ys-frog /sis'frog/ n. [the PLATO system] Playful variant of `sysprog', which is in turn short for `systems programmer'.
• poo: n. Variant of {spooge}, sense 1. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• kludge: /klooj/ or /kluhj/ n. Common (but incorrect) variant of {kluge}, q.
  v. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• FROG,n. An amphibian with edible legs.
• ystem mangler: n. Humorous synonym for `system manager', poss.
  from the fact that one major IBM OS had a {root} account called SYSMANGR....
• app: /ap/ n. Short for `application program', as opposed to a systems program.
  Apps are what systems vendors are forever chasing developers to create for their environments so they can sell more boxes....
• PPN: /P-P-N/, /pip'n/ [from `Project-Programmer Number'] n.
  A user-ID under {{TOPS-10}} and its various mutant progeny at SAIL, BBN, CompuServe, and elsewhere....
• PBD: /P-B-D/ [abbrev. of `Programmer Brain Damage'] n.
  Applied to bug reports revealing places where the program was obviously broken by an incompetent or short-sighted programmer....
• This can't happen: Less clipped variant of {can't happen}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary