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Whizzy: [Sun] Adj. (alt. `wizzy') Describes A {cuspy} Program
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:whizzy: [Sun] adj. (alt. `wizzy') Describes a {cuspy} program;
one that is feature-rich and well presented.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
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whizzy adj. (alt. `wizzy') [Sun] Describes a cuspy program
one that is feature-rich and well presented....
cuspy: /kuhs'pee/ [WPI: from the {DEC} abbreviation CUSP, for `Commonly Used System Program', i.
e., a utility program used by many people] adj. 1....
wizardly: adj. Pertaining to wizards. A wizardly {feature} is one that only a wizard could understand or use properly.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
fine: [WPI] adj. Good, but not good enough to be {cuspy}.
The word `fine' is used elsewhere, of course, but without the implicit comparison to the higher level implied by {cuspy}....
off the trolley: adj. Describes the behavior of a program that malfunctions and goes catatonic, but doesn't actually {crash} or abort.
See {glitch}, {bug}, {deep space}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
ude: [WPI] adj. 1. (of a program) Badly written. 2.
Functionally poor, e.g., a program that is very difficult to use because of gratuitously poor (random?...
oddy: /nod'ee/ [UK: from the children's books] adj.
1. Small and un-useful, but demonstrating a point....
compact: adj. Of a design, describes the valuable property that it can all be apprehended at once in one's head.
This generally means the thing created from the design can be used with greater facility and fewer errors than an equivalent tool that is not compact....
like kicking dead whales down the beach: adj. Describes a slow, difficult, and disgusting process.
First popularized by a famous quote about the difficulty of getting work done under one of IBM's mainframe OSes....