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• crawling horror n. Ancient crufty hardware or software that is kept obstinately alive by forces beyond the control of the hackers at a site.
  Like dusty deck or gonkulator, but connotes that the thing described is not just an irritation but an active menace to health and sanity....
• dusty deck: n. Old software (especially applications) which one is obliged to remain compatible with
  or to maintain ({DP} types call this `legacy code', a term hackers consider smarmy and excessively reverent)....
• dusty deck n. Old software (especially applications) which one is obliged to remain compatible with
  or to maintain (DP types call this `legacy code', a term hackers consider smarmy and excessively reverent)....
• monkey up: vt. To hack together hardware for a particular task, especially a one-shot job.
  Connotes an extremely {crufty} and consciously temporary solution....
• eality check: n. 1. The simplest kind of test of software or hardware
  doing the equivalent of asking it what 2 + 2 is and seeing if you get 4....
• WOMBAT: [Waste Of Money, Brains, And Time] adj. Applied to problems which are both profoundly {uninteresting} in themselves and unlikely to benefit anyone interesting even if solved.
  Often used in fanciful constructions such as `wrestling with a wombat'....
• gag: vi. Equivalent to {choke}, but connotes more disgust.
  Hey, this is FORTRAN code. No wonder the C compiler gagged....
• yntactic salt: n. The opposite of {syntactic sugar}, a feature designed to make it harder to write bad code.
  Specifically, syntactic salt is a hoop the programmer must jump through just to prove that he knows what's going on, rather than to express a program action....
• moke: vi. 1. To {crash} or blow up, usually spectacularly.
  The new version smoked, just like the last one....