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• aive: adj. 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)....
• demo /de'moh/ [short for `demonstration'] 1. v. To demonstrate a product or prototype.
  A far more effective way of inducing bugs to manifest than any number of test runs, especially when important people are watching....
• bug n. An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, esp.
  one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature....
• 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)....
• happily adv. Of software, used to emphasize that a program is unaware of some important fact about its environme
  either because it has been fooled into believing a lie, or because it doesn't care....
• boot v.,n. [techspeak; from `by one's bootstraps'] To load and initialize the operating system on a machine.
  This usage is no longer jargon (having passed into techspeak) but has given rise to some derivatives that are still jargon....
• ame-day service n. Ironic term used to describe long response time, particularly with respect to MS-DOS system calls (which ought to require only a tiny fraction of a second to execute).
  Such response time is a major incentive for programmers to write programs that are not well-behaved....
• user n. 1. Someone doing `real work' with the computer, using it as a means rather than an end.
  Someone who pays to use a computer. See real user....
• demo: /de'moh/ [short for `demonstration'] 1. v. To demonstrate a product or prototype.
  A far more effective way of inducing bugs to manifest than any number of {test} runs, especially when important people are watching....