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• Lasherism: [Harvard] n. A program that solves a standard problem (such as the Eight Queens puzzle or implementing the {life} algorithm) in a deliberately nonstandard way.
  Distinguished from a {crock} or {kluge} by the fact that the programmer did it on purpose as a mental exercise....
• kluge /klooj/ [from the German `klug', clever; poss.
  related to Polish `klucz' (a key, a hint, a main point)] 1....
• oftware rot n. Term used to describe the tendency of software that has not been used in a while to lose
  uch failure may be semi-humorously ascribed to bit rot....
• crock: [from the American scatologism `crock of shit'] n.
  1. An awkward feature or programming technique that ought to be made cleaner....
• kludge 1. /klooj/ n. Incorrect (though regrettably common) spelling of kluge (US).
  These two words have been confused in American usage since the early 1960s, and widely confounded in Great Britain since the end of World War II....
• 0472 Ever submit an entry to the Obfuscated C code contest?
  0473 ... Did it win? 0474 ... Did your entry inspire a new rule? -- from THE HACKER TEST...
• crock n. [from the American scatologism `crock of shit'] 1.
  An awkward feature or programming technique that ought to be made cleaner....
• mung /muhng/ vt. [in 1960 at MIT, `Mash Until No Good'
  sometime after that the derivation from the recursive acronym `Mung Until No Good' became standard...
• KLUGE (kloodj) alt. KLUDGE [from the German kluge, clever] n.
  1. A Rube Goldberg device in hard/software. 2. A clever programming trick used as a stopgap measure, and noted for being more efficient than clear....