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• creationism: n. The (false) belief that large, innovative software designs can be completely specified in advance and then painlessly magicked out of the void by the normal efforts of a team of normally talented programmers.
  In fact, experience has shown repeatedly that good designs arise only from evolutionary, exploratory interaction between one (or at most a small handful of) exceptionally able designer(s) and an active user population -- and that the first try at a big new idea is always wrong....
• Microsoft Open Source Solitaire REDMOND, WA -- In a first attempt at "embrace-and-extend" of open source software
  Microsoft will release its popular Solitaire and FreeCell games as open source under the MILA (Microsoft Innovative License Agreement)....
• MUD /muhd/ n. [acronym, Multi-User Dungeon; alt.
  Multi-User Dimension] 1. A class of virtual reality experiments accessible via the Internet....
• bottom-up implementation n. Hackish opposite of the techspeak term `top-down design'.
  It has been received wisdom in most programming cultures that it is best to design from higher levels of abstraction down to lower, specifying sequences of action in increasing detail until you get to actual code....
• bottom-up implementation: n. Hackish opposite of the techspeak term `top-down design'.
  It is now received wisdom in most programming cultures that it is best to design from higher levels of abstraction down to lower, specifying sequences of action in increasing detail until you get to actual code....
• aive adj. 1. Untutored in the perversities of some particular program or system
  one who still tries to do things in an intuitive way, rather than the right way (in really good designs these coincide, but most designs aren't `really good' in the appropriate sense)....
• banner n. 1. The title page added to printouts by most print spoolers (see spool).
  Typically includes user or account ID information in very large character-graphics capitals....
• banner: n. 1. The title page added to printouts by most print spoolers (see {spool}).
  Typically includes user or account ID information in very large character-graphics capitals....
• 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...