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• diff /dif/ n. 1. A change listing, especially giving differences between (and additions to) source code or documents (the term is often used in the plural `diffs').
  Send me your diffs for the Jargon File!" Compare vdiff....
• vdiff: /vee'dif/ v.,n. Visual diff. The operation of finding differences between two files by {eyeball search}.
  The term `optical diff' has also been reported, and is sometimes more specifically used for the act of superimposing two nearly identical printouts on one another and holding them up to a light to spot differences....
• patch 1. n. A temporary addition to a piece of code, usually as a quick-and-dirty remedy to an existing bug or misfeature.
  A patch may or may not work, and may or may not eventually be incorporated permanently into the program....
• vdiff /vee'dif/ v.,n. Visual diff. The operation of finding differences between two files by eyeball search.
  The term `optical diff' has also been reported, and is sometimes more specifically used for the act of superimposing two nearly identical printouts on one another and holding them up to a light to spot differences....
• delta: n. 1. [techspeak] A quantitative change, especially a small or incremental one (this use is general in physics and engineering).
  I just doubled the speed of my program!" "What was the delta on program size?...
• lint: [from UNIX's `lint(1)', named for the bits of fluff it supposedly picks from programs] 1.
  vt. To examine a program closely for style, language usage, and portability problems, esp....
• bits: n.pl. 1. Information. Examples: "I need some bits about file formats.
  ("I need to know about file formats.") Compare {core dump}, sense 4....
• mod: vt.,n. 1. Short for `modify' or `modification'.
  Very commonly used --- in fact the full terms are considered markers that one is being formal....
• delta n. 1. [techspeak] A quantitative change, especially a small or incremental one (this use is general in physics and engineering).
  I just doubled the speed of my program!" "What was the delta on program size?...