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• program, n: A magic spell cast over a computer allowing it to turn one's input into error messages.
  .v. To engage in a pastime similar to banging one's head against a wall, but with fewer opportunities for reward....
• program n. 1. A magic spell cast over a computer allowing it to turn one's input into error messages.
  2. An exercise in experimental epistemology. 3....
• program: n. 1. A magic spell cast over a computer allowing it to turn one's input into error messages.
  2. An exercise in experimental epistemology. 3....
• PROGRAM (pro'-gram) [n] A magic spell cast over a ____ .
  . computer allowing it to turn one's input into error |C>_....
• 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...
• drop on the floor vt. To react to an error condition by silently discarding messages or other valuable data.
  The gateway ran out of memory, so it just started dropping packets on the floor....
• demented adj. Yet another term of disgust used to describe a malfunctioning program.
  The connotation in this case is that the program works as designed, but the design is bad....
• demented: adj. Yet another term of disgust used to describe a program.
  The connotation in this case is that the program works as designed, but the design is bad....
• filter: [orig. {{UNIX}}, now also in {{MS-DOS}}] n.
  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...