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• WIBNI // n. [Bell Labs: Wouldn't It Be Nice If] What most requirements documents and specifications consist entirely of.
  Compare IWBNI....
• IWBNI: // [abbreviation] `It Would Be Nice If'. Compare {WIBNI}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• IWBNI // Abbreviation for `It Would Be Nice If'. Compare WIBNI.
• crog: /skrog/ [Bell Labs] vt. To damage, trash, or corrupt a data structure.
  The list header got scrogged." Also reported as `skrog', and ascribed to the comic strip "The Wizard of Id"....
• oach: [Bell Labs] vt. To destroy, esp. of a data structure.
  Hardware gets {toast}ed or {fried}, software gets roached. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• New Jersey: [primarily Stanford/Silicon Valley] adj.
  Brain-damaged or of poor design. This refers to the allegedly wretched quality of such software as C, C++, and UNIX (which originated at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey)....
• UNIX:: /yoo'niks/ [In the authors' words, "A weak pun on Multics"] n.
  (also `Unix') An interactive time-sharing system invented in 1969 by Ken Thompson after Bell Labs left the Multics project, originally so he could play games on his scavenged PDP-7....
• Core Wars: n. A game between `assembler' programs in a simulated machine, where the objective is to kill your opponent's program by overwriting it.
  Popularized by A. K. Dewdney's column in "Scientific American" magazine, this was actually devised by Victor Vyssotsky, Robert Morris Sr....
• Ninety-Ninety Rule: n. "The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time.
  The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time....