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• ool 1. n. A program used primarily to create, manipulate, modify, or analyze other programs, such as a compiler or an editor or a cross-referencing program.
  Oppose app, operating system filter, plumbing)....
• 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....
• DDT /D-D-T/ n. [from the insecticide para-dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethene] 1.
  Generic term for a program that assists in debugging other programs by showing individual machine instructions in a readable symbolic form and letting the user change them....
• aste: [primarily MIT] n. 1. The quality in a program that tends to be inversely proportional to the number of features, hacks, and kluges programmed into it.
  Also `tasty', `tasteful', `tastefulness'. "This feature comes in N tasty flavors....
• well-behaved: adj. 1. [primarily {{MS-DOS}}] Said of software conforming to system interface guidelines and standards.
  Well-behaved software uses the operating system to do chores such as keyboard input, allocating memory and drawing graphics....
• 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....
• demon: n. 1. [MIT] A portion of a program that is not invoked explicitly, but that lies dormant waiting for some condition(s) to occur.
  See {daemon}. The distinction is that demons are usually processes within a program, while daemons are usually programs running on an operating system....
• filter: [orig. {{UNIX}}, now also in {{MS-DOS}}] n.
  A program that processes an input data stream into an output data stream in some well-defined way, and does no I/O to anywhere else except possibly on error conditio...
• demon n. 1. [MIT] A portion of a program that is not invoked explicitly, but that lies dormant waiting for some condition(s) to occur.
  See daemon. The distinction is that demons are usually processes within a program, while daemons are usually programs running on an operating system....