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• main loop n. The top-level control flow construct in an input- or event-driven program, the one which receives and acts or dispatches on the program's input.
  See also driver....
• driver n. 1. The main loop of an event-processing program
  he code that gets commands and dispatches them for execution....
• driver: n. 1. The {main loop} of an event-processing program
  the code that gets commands and dispatches them for execution....
• Helen Keller mode n. 1. State of a hardware or software system that is deaf, dumb, and blind, i.
  e., accepting no input and generating no output, usually due to an infinite loop or some other excursion into deep space....
• filter n. [very common; orig. Unix, now also in MS-DOS] A program that processes an input data stream into an output data stream in some well-defined way
  and does no I/O to anywhere else except possibly on error conditio...
• ad-hockery /ad-hok'*r-ee/ n. [Purdue] 1. Gratuitous assumptions made inside certain programs, esp.
  expert systems, which lead to the appearance of semi-intelligent behavior but are in fact entirely arbitrary....
• Helen Keller mode: n. 1. State of a hardware or software system that is deaf, dumb, and blind, i.
  e., accepting no input and generating no output, usually due to an infinite loop or some other excursion into {deep space}....
• endless loop n. see LOOP, ENDLESS In YOUR PROGRAM an endless loop is an elementary blunder, whereas in MY PROGRAM it is a DYNAMIC HALT.
• ad-hockery: /ad-hok'*r-ee/ [Purdue] n. 1. Gratuitous assumptions made inside certain programs, esp.
  expert systems, which lead to the appearance of semi-intelligent behavior but are in fact entirely arbitrary....