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• WOMBAT /wom'bat/ adj. [acronym: Waste Of Money, Brai
  And Time] Applied to problems which are both profoundly uninteresting in themselves and unlikely to benefit anyone interesting even if solved....
• uninteresting: adj. 1. Said of a problem that, although {nontrivial}, can be solved simply by throwing sufficient resources at it.
  2. Also said of problems for which a solution would neither advance the state of the art nor be fun to design and code....
• uninteresting adj. 1. Said of a problem that, although nontrivial, can be solved simply by throwing sufficient resources at it.
  2. Also said of problems for which a solution would neither advance the state of the art nor be fun to design and code....
• metasyntactic variable n. A name used in examples and understood to stand for whatever thing is under discussion, or any random member of a class of things under discussion.
  The word foo is the canonical example. To avoid confusion, hackers never (well, hardly ever) use `foo' or other words like it as permanent names for anything....
• Berkeley Quality Software: adj. (often abbreviated `BQS') Term used in a pejorative sense to refer to software that was apparently created by rather spaced-out hackers late at night to solve some unique problem.
  It usually has nonexistent, incomplete, or incorrect documentation, has been tested on at least two examples, and core dumps when anyone else attempts to use it....
• Berkeley Quality Software adj. (often abbreviated `BQS') Term used in a pejorative sense to refer to software that was apparently created by rather spaced-out hackers late at night to solve some unique problem.
  It usually has nonexistent, incomplete, or incorrect documentation, has been tested on at least two examples, and core dumps when anyone else attempts to use it....
• plingnet: /pling'net/ n. Syn. {UUCPNET}. Also see {{Commonwealth Hackish}}, which uses `pling' for {bang} (as in {bang path}).
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• infinity: n. 1. The largest value that can be represented in a particular type of variable (register, memory location, data type, whatever).
  2. `minus infinity': The smallest such value, not necessarily or even usually the simple negation of plus infinity....
• ontrivial: adj. Requiring real thought or significant computing power.
  Often used as an understated way of saying that a problem is quite difficult or impractical, or even entirely unsolvable ("Proving P=NP is nontrivial")....