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• bug n. An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, esp.
  one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature....
• aga n. [WPI] A cuspy but bogus raving story about N random broken people.
  Here is a classic example of the saga form, as told by Guy L....
• phase of the moon n. Used humorously as a random parameter on which something is said to depend.
  Sometimes implies unreliability of whatever is dependent, or that reliability seems to be dependent on conditions nobody has been able to determine....
• feature n. 1. [common] A good property or behavior (as of a program).
  Whether it was intended or not is immaterial. 2....
• Quote #86 Once upon a time, when I was training to be a mathematician, a group of us bright young students taking number theory discovered the names of the smaller prime numbers.
  2: The Odd Prime -- It's the only even prime, therefore is odd....
• ALL USERS PLEASE NOTE ======================== CAR and CDR now return extra values.
  The function CAR now returns two values. Since it has to go to the trouble to figure out if the object is carcdr-able anyway, we figured you might as well get both halves at once....
• The cable had passed us by; the dish was the only hope, and eventually we were all forced to turn to it.
  By the summer of '85, the valley had more satellite dishes per capita than an Eskimo village on the north slope of Alaska....
• quine /kwi:n/ n. [from the name of the logician Willard van Orman Quine, via Douglas Hofstadter] A program that generates a copy of its own source text as its complete output.
  Devising the shortest possible quine in some given programming language is a common hackish amusement....
• live data: n. 1. Data that is written to be interpreted and takes over program flow when triggered by some un-obvious operation, such as viewing it.
  One use of such hacks is to break security. For example, some smart terminals have commands that allow one to download strings to program key...