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• lasherism n. [Harvard] 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....
• crock: [from the American scatologism `crock of shit'] n.
  1. An awkward feature or programming technique that ought to be made cleaner....
• oy problem: [AI] n. A deliberately oversimplified case of a challenging problem used to investigate, prototype, or test algorithms for a real problem.
  Sometimes used pejoratively. See also {gedanken}, {toy program}....
• bogo-sort: /boh`goh-sort'/ n. (var. `stupid-sort') The archetypical perversely awful algorithm (as opposed to {bubble sort}, which is merely the generic *bad* algorithm).
  Bogo-sort is equivalent to repeatedly throwing a deck of cards in the air, picking them up at random, and then testing whether they are in order....
• asal demons: n. Recognized shorthand on the USENET group comp.
  d.c for any unexpected behavior of a C compiler on encountering an undefined construct....
• crunch: 1. vi. To process, usually in a time-consuming or complicated way.
  Connotes an essentially trivial operation that is nonetheless painful to perform....
• C: n. 1. The third letter of the English alphabet. 2.
  ASCII 1000011. 3. The name of a programming language designed by Dennis Ritchie during the early 1970s and immediately used to reimplement {{UNIX}}...
• kluge /klooj/ [from the German `klug', clever; poss.
  related to Polish `klucz' (a key, a hint, a main point)] 1....
• kluge around: vt. To avoid a bug or difficult condition by inserting a {kluge}.
  Compare {workaround}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...