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• decay n.,vi [from nuclear physics] An automatic conversion which is applied to most array-valued expressions in C
  hey `decay into' pointer-valued expressions pointing to the array's first element....
• ided: /str:'d*d/ [scientific computing] adj. Said of a sequence of memory reads and writes to addresse
  each of which is separated from the last by a constant interval called the `stride length'....
• bit decay: n. See {bit rot}. People with a physics background tend to prefer this variant for the analogy with particle decay.
  See also {computron}, {quantum bogodynamics}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• mash the stack: [C programming] n. To corrupt the execution stack by writing past the end of a local array or other data structure.
  Code that smashes the stack can cause a return from the routine to jump to a random address, resulting in some of the most insidious data-dependent bugs known to mankind....
• overrun screw: [C programming] n. A variety of {fandango on core} produced by scribbling past the end of an array (C implementations typically have no checks for this error).
  This is relatively benign and easy to spot if the array is static...
• ided /stri:'d*d/ adj. [scientific computing] Said of a sequence of memory reads and writes to addresse
  each of which is separated from the last by a constant interval called the `stride length'....
• bulletproof: adj. Used of an algorithm or implementation considered extremely {robust}
  lossage-resistant; capable of correctly recovering from any imaginable exception condition -- a rare and valued quality....
• COBOL: /koh'bol/ [COmmon Business-Oriented Language] n.
  (Synonymous with {evil}.) A weak, verbose, and flabby language used by {card walloper}s to do boring mindless things on {dinosaur} mainframes....
• Classic C: /klas'ik C/ [a play on `Coke Classic'] n.
  The C programming language as defined in the first edition of {K&R}, with some small additions....