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• compact adj. Of a design, describes the valuable property that it can all be apprehended at once in one's head.
  This generally means the thing created from the design can be used with greater facility and fewer errors than an equivalent tool that is not compact....
• Why didn't they design compact discs to hold ninety minutes?
• A man can compact his to travel size, unlike a cucumber.
• evil: adj. As used by hackers, implies that some system, program, person, or institution is sufficiently maldesigned as to be not worth the bother of dealing with.
  Unlike the adjectives in the {cretinous}/{losing}/{brain-damaged} series, `evil' does not imply incompetence or bad design, but rather a set of goals or design criteria fatally incompatible with the speaker's....
• wart: n. A small, {crock}y {feature} that sticks out of an otherwise {clean} design.
  Something conspicuous for localized ugliness, especially a special-case exception to a general rule....
• C++ /C'-pluhs-pluhs/ n. Designed by Bjarne Stroustrup of AT&
  T Bell Labs as a successor to C. Now one of the languages of choice, although many hackers still grumble that it is the successor to either Algol 68 or Ada (depending on generation), and a prime example of second-system effect....
• The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compac
  One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madma...
• gag: vi. Equivalent to {choke}, but connotes more disgust.
  Hey, this is FORTRAN code. No wonder the C compiler gagged....
• 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....