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• bread crumbs n. Debugging statements inserted into a program that emit output or log indicators of the program's state to a file so you can see where it dies or pin down the cause of surprising behavior.
  The term is probably a reference to the Hansel and Gretel story from the Brothers Grimm or the older French folktale of Thumbelina...
• line 666: [from Christian eschatological myth] n. The notional line of source at which a program fails for obscure reaso
  implying either that *somebody* is out to get it (when you are the programmer), or that it richly deserves to be so gotten (when you are not)....
• plumbing: [UNIX] n. Term used for {shell} code, so called because of the prevalence of `pipelines' that feed the output of one program to the input of another.
  Under UNIX, user utilities can often be implemented or at least prototyped by a suitable collection of pipelines and temp-file grinding encapsulated in a shell scrip...
• pooge: /spooj/ 1. n. Inexplicable or arcane code, or random and probably incorrect output from a computer program.
  2. vi. To generate spooge (sense 1). -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• crunch: 1. vi. To process, usually in a time-consuming or complicated way.
  Connotes an essentially trivial operation that is nonetheless painful to perform....
• glitch: /glich/ [from German `glitschen' to slip, via Yiddish `glitshen', to slide or skid] 1.
  . A sudden interruption in electric service, sanity, continuity, or program function....
• foo /foo/ 1. interj. Term of disgust. 2. [very common] Used very generally as a sample name for absolutely anything, esp.
  programs and files (esp. scratch files). 3. First on the standard list of metasyntactic variables used in syntax examples....
• off:: /N'rof/ [UNIX, from "new roff" (see {{troff}})] n.
  A companion program to the UNIX typesetter {{troff}}, accepting identical input but preparing output for terminals and line printers....
• frogging: [University of Waterloo] v. 1. Partial corruption of a text file or input stream by some bug or consistent glitch, as opposed to random events like line noise or media failures.
  Might occur, for example, if one bit of each incoming character on a tty were stuck, so that some characters were correct and others were not....