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• Wombat's Laws of Computer Selection: (1) If it doesn't run Unix, forget it.
  (2) Any computer design over 10 years old is obsolete....
• Laws of Computer Programming: 1. Any given program, when running, is obsolete.
  2. Any given program costs more and takes longer....
• hot spot: n. 1. [primarily used by C/UNIX programmers, but spreading] It is received wisdom that in most programs, less than 10% of the code eats 90% of the execution time
  if one were to graph instruction visits versus code addresses, one would typically see a few huge spikes amidst a lot of low-level noise....
• 1) Any given program, when running, is obsolete. (2) Any given program costs more and takes longer.
  (3) If a program is useful, it will have to be changed....
• Laws of Computer Programming (1) Any given program, when running, is obsolete.
  (2) Any given program costs more and takes longer....
• bit bucket n. [very common] 1. The universal data sink (originally, the mythical receptacle used to catch bits when they fall off the end of a register during a shift instruction).
  Discarded, lost, or destroyed data is said to have `gone to the bit bucket'....
• proggy n. 1. Any computer program that is considered a full application.
  2. Any computer program that is made up of or otherwise contains proglets....