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• whack v. According to arch-hacker James Gosling (designer of NeWS, GOSMACS and Java), to ".
  ..modify a program with no idea whatsoever how it works....
• I didn't change anything!: interj. An aggrieved cry often heard as bugs manifest during a regression test.
  The {canonical} reply to this assertion is "Then it works just the same as it did before, doesn't it?...
• prettyprint: /prit'ee-print/ (alt. `pretty-print') v.
  1. To generate `pretty' human-readable output from a {hairy} internal representatio...
• English: 1. n.,obs. The source code for a program, which may be in any language, as opposed to the linkable or executable binary produced from it by a compiler.
  The idea behind the term is that to a real hacker, a program written in his favorite programming language is at least as readable as English....
• SMOP: /S-M-O-P/ [Simple (or Small) Matter of Programming] n.
  1. A piece of code, not yet written, whose anticipated length is significantly greater than its complexity....
• canonical adj. [very common; historically, `according to religious law'] The usual or standard state or manner of something.
  This word has a somewhat more technical meaning in mathematics....
• Obfuscated C Contest n. (in full, the `International Obfuscated C Code Contest', or IOCCC) An annual contest run since 1984 over Usenet by Landon Curt Noll and friends.
  The overall winner is whoever produces the most unreadable, creative, and bizarre (but working) C program...
• lim: n. A small, derivative change (e.g., to code). -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• whacker: [University of Maryland: from {hacker}] n.
  1. A person, similar to a {hacker}, who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities....