- careware /keir'weir/ n.
A variety of shareware for which either the author... - cargo cult programming n.
A style of (incompetent)
programming dominated by ritual inclusion of code or program
structures that serve no real purpose.
A cargo cult programmer will... - cascade n.
1. A huge volume of spurious error-message
output produced by a compiler with poor error recovery.
Too frequently, one trivial syntax error (such as... - case and paste n.
[from `cut and paste'] 1.
The addition of a new feature to an existing system... - casters-up mode n.
[IBM, prob. fr. slang belly up] Yet
another synonym for `broken' or `down'.
Usually connotes a major failure. A system (hardware... - casting the runes n.
What a guru does when you ask him
or her to run a particular program and type at it because it never
works for anyone else;
esp. used when nobody can ever see what ... - cat [from `catenate' via Unix cat(1)] vt.
1. [techspeak] To spew an entire file to the screen or some other
output sink without pause.
2. By extension, to dump large amounts of data at... - catatonic adj.
Describes a condition of suspended animation
in which something is so wedged or hung that it makes no
response.
If you are typing on a terminal and suddenly the ... - cathedral n.,adj.
[see bazaar for derivation] The
`classical' mode of software engineering long thought to be
necessarily implied by Brooks's Law.
Features small teams, tight project... - cd tilde /C-D til-d*/ vi.
To go home. From the Unix
C-shell and Korn-shell command cd ~,
which takes one to one's $HOME (cd with no arguments...
