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• wart n. A small, crocky feature that sticks out of an otherwise clean design.
  Something conspicuous for localized ugliness, especially a special-case exception to a general rule....
• miswart: /mis-wort/ [from {wart} by analogy with {misbug}] n.
  A {feature} that superficially appears to be a {wart} but has been determined to be the {Right Thing}....
• miswart /mis-wort/ n. [from wart by analogy with misbug] A feature that superficially appears to be a wart but has been determined to be the Right Thing.
  For example, in some versions of the EMACS text editor, the `transpose characters' command exchanges the character under the cursor with the one before it on the screen, except when the cursor is at the end of a line, in which case the two characters before the cursor are exchanged....
• ASCII /as'kee/ n. [originally an acronym (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) but now merely conventional] The predominant character set encoding of present-day computers.
  The standard version uses 7 bits for each character, whereas most earlier codes (including early drafts of of ASCII prior to June 1961) used fewer....
• crock: [from the American scatologism `crock of shit'] n.
  1. An awkward feature or programming technique that ought to be made cleaner....
• Classic C: /klas'ik C/ [a play on `Coke Classic'] n.
  The C programming language as defined in the first edition of {K&R}, with some small additions....
• plat: n. 1. Name used in many places (DEC, IBM, and others) for the asterisk (`*') character (ASCII 0101010).
  This may derive from the `squashed-bug' appearance of the asterisk on many early line printers....
• feature n. 1. [common] A good property or behavior (as of a program).
  Whether it was intended or not is immaterial. 2....
• JCL: /J-C-L/ n. 1. IBM's supremely {rude} Job Control Language.
  JCL is the script language used to control the execution of programs in IBM's batch systems....