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• Fortrash /for'trash/ n. Hackerism for the FORTRAN (FORmula TRANslator) language
  eferring to its primitive design, gross and irregular syntax, limited control constructs, and slippery, exception-filled semantics....
• write-only language: n. A language with syntax (or semantics) sufficiently dense and bizarre that any routine of significant size is automatically {write-only code}.
  A sobriquet applied occasionally to C and often to APL, though {INTERCAL} and {TECO} certainly deserve it more....
• 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....
• MFTL /M-F-T-L/ [abbreviation: `My Favorite Toy Language'] 1.
  adj. Describes a talk on a programming language design that is heavy on the syntax (with lots of BNF), sometimes even talks about semantics (e....
• un-stools: n. Unflattering hackerism for SunTools, a pre-X windowing environment notorious in its day for size, slowness, and misfeatures.
  {X}, however, is larger and slower; see {second-system effect}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• Ada:: n. A {{Pascal}}-descended language that has been made mandatory for Department of Defense software projects by the Pentagon.
  Hackers are nearly unanimous in observing that, technically, it is precisely what one might expect given that kind of endorsement by fia...
• alker system: n. British hackerism for software that enables real-time chat or {talk mode}.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• paghetti code: n. Code with a complex and tangled control structure, esp.
  one using many GOTOs, exceptions, or other `unstructured' branching constructs....
• XOFF: /X-of/ n. Syn. {control-S}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary