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• lexer: /lek'sr/ n. Common hacker shorthand for `lexical analyzer', the input-tokenizing stage in the parser for a language (the part that breaks it into word-like pieces).
  Some C lexers get confused by the old-style compound ops like `=-'....
• indent style n. [C, C++, and Java programmers] The rules one uses to indent code in a readable fashion.
  There are four major C indent styles, described below...
• BNF /B-N-F/ n. 1. [techspeak] Acronym for `Backus Normal Form' (often incorrectly expanded as `Backus-Naur Form')
  a metasyntactic notation used to specify the syntax of programming languages, command sets, and the like....
• 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....
• 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....
• boxed comments n. Comments (explanatory notes attached to program instructions) that occupy several lines by themselve
  o called because in assembler and C code they are often surrounded by a box in a style something like thi...
• boxed comments: n. Comments (explanatory notes attached to program instructions) that occupy several lines by themselve
  o called because in assembler and C code they are often surrounded by a box in a style something like thi...
• hell [orig. Multics n. techspeak, widely propagated via Unix] 1.
  [techspeak] The command interpreter used to pass commands to an operating system...
• 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....