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• dead code n. Routines that can never be accessed because all calls to them have been removed
  or code that cannot be reached because it is guarded by a control structure that provably must always transfer control somewhere else....
• grunge: /gruhnj/ n. 1. That which is grungy, or that which makes it so.
  2. [Cambridge] Code which is inaccessible due to changes in other parts of the program....
• grunge /gruhnj/ n. 1. That which is grungy, or that which makes it so.
  2. [Cambridge] Code which is inaccessible due to changes in other parts of the program....
• firewall code: n. 1. The code you put in a system (say, a telephone switch) to make sure that the users can't do any damage.
  Since users always want to be able to do everything but never want to suffer for any mistakes, the construction of a firewall is a question not only of defensive coding but also of interface presentation, so that users don't even get curious about those corners of a system where they can burn themselves....
• can't happen: The traditional program comment for code executed under a condition that should never be true, for example a file size computed as negative.
  Often, such a condition being true indicates data corruption or a faulty algorithm...
• paghetti code: n. Code with a complex and tangled control structure, esp.
  one using many GOTOs, exceptions, or other `unstructured' branching constructs....
• SMOP: /S-M-O-P/ [Simple (or Small) Matter of Programming] n.
  1. A piece of code, not yet written, whose anticipated length is significantly greater than its complexity....
• firewall code n. 1. The code you put in a system (say, a telephone switch) to make sure that the users can't do any damage.
  Since users always want to be able to do everything but never want to suffer for any mistakes, the construction of a firewall is a question not only of defensive coding but also of interface presentation, so that users don't even get curious about those corners of a system where they can burn themselves....
• magic cookie: [UNIX] n. 1. Something passed between routines or programs that enables the receiver to perform some operatio
  a capability ticket or opaque identifier. Especially used of small data objects that contain data encoded in a strange or intrinsically machine-dependent way....