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• winged comments: n. Comments set on the same line as code, as opposed to {boxed comments}.
  In C, for example: d = sqrt(x*x + y*y); /* distance from origin */ Generally these refer only to the action(s) taken on that line....
• boxed comments: n. Comments (explanatory notes attached to program instructions) that occupy several lines by themselve
  o called because in assembler and C code they are often surrounded by a box in a style something like thi...
• boxed comments n. Comments (explanatory notes attached to program instructions) that occupy several lines by themselve
  o called because in assembler and C code they are often surrounded by a box in a style something like thi...
• XXX: /X-X-X/ n. A marker that attention is needed. Commonly used in program comments to indicate areas that are kluged up or need to be.
  Some hackers liken `XXX' to the notional heavy-porn movie rating....
• heavy wizardry: n. Code or designs that trade on a particularly intimate knowledge or experience of a particular operating system or language or complex application interface.
  Distinguished from {deep magic}, which trades more on arcane *theoretical* knowledge....
• he X that can be Y is not the true X: Yet another instance of hackerdom's peculiar attraction to mystical references --- a common humorous way of making exclusive statements about a class of things.
  The template is from the "Tao te Ching": "The Tao which can be spoken of is not the true Tao....
• NeWS: /nee'wis/, /n[y]oo'is/ or /n[y]ooz/ [acronym
  he `Network Window System'] n. The road not taken in window systems, an elegant {{PostScript}}-based environment that would almost certainly have won the standards war with {X} if it hadn't been {proprietary} to Sun Microsystems....
• deep magic: [poss. from C. S. Lewis's "Narnia" books] n.
  An awesomely arcane technique central to a program or system, esp....
• XXX /X-X-X/ n. A marker that attention is needed.
  Commonly used in program comments to indicate areas that are kluged up or need to be....