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• write-only code: [a play on `read-only memory'] n. Code so arcane
  complex, or ill-structured that it cannot be modified or even comprehended by anyone but its author, and possibly not even by him/her....
• Good Thing: n.,adj. Often capitalized; always pronounced as if capitalized.
  1. Self-evidently wonderful to anyone in a position to notice...
• blow an EPROM: /bloh *n ee'prom/ v. (alt. `blast an EPROM', `burn an EPROM') To program a read-only memory, e.
  g. for use with an embedded system. This term arose because the programming process for the Programmable Read-Only Memories (PROMs) that preceded present-day Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memories (EPROMs) involved intentionally blowing tiny electrical fuses on the chip....
• RTFB: /R-T-F-B/ [UNIX] imp. Acronym for `Read The Fucking Binary'.
  Used when neither documentation nor source for the problem at hand exists, and the only thing to do is use some debugger or monitor and directly analyze the assembler or even the machine code....
• heavy wizardry: n. Code or designs that trade on a particularly intimate knowledge or experience of a particular operating system or language or complex application interface.
  Distinguished from {deep magic}, which trades more on arcane *theoretical* knowledge....
• paghetti code: n. Code with a complex and tangled control structure, esp.
  one using many GOTOs, exceptions, or other `unstructured' branching constructs....
• write-only language: n. A language with syntax (or semantics) sufficiently dense and bizarre that any routine of significant size is automatically {write-only code}.
  A sobriquet applied occasionally to C and often to APL, though {INTERCAL} and {TECO} certainly deserve it more....
• kangaroo code: n. Syn. {spaghetti code}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• Good Thing n.,adj. [very common; often capitalized
  always pronounced as if capitalized.] 1. Self-evidently wonderful to anyone in a position to notice...