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• ed wire: [IBM] n. Patch wires installed by programmers who have no business mucking with the hardware.
  It is said that the only thing more dangerous than a hardware guy with a code patch is a {softy} with a soldering iron....
• ed wire n. [IBM] Patch wires installed by programmers who have no business mucking with the hardware.
  It is said that the only thing more dangerous than a hardware guy with a code patch is a softy with a soldering iron....
• wizard: n. 1. A person who knows how a complex piece of software or hardware works (that is, who {grok}s it)
  esp. someone who can find and fix bugs quickly in an emergency....
• aive adj. 1. 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)....
• Don't play for safety--it's the most dangerous thing in the world. -- Hugh Walpole
• If I lived back in the Wild West days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a soldering iron.
  That way, if some smart-aleck cowboy said something like, "Hey look....
• gopher n. A type of Internet service first floated around 1991 and obsolesced around 1995 by the World Wide Web.
  Gopher presents a menuing interface to a tree or graph of link...
• Thus spake the master programmer: "Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to be maintained.
  -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming...
• Price Wang's programmer was coding software. His fingers danced upon the keyboard.
  The program compiled without an error message, and the program ran like a gentle wind....