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• delint /dee-lint/ v. obs. To modify code to remove problems detected when linting.
  Confusingly, this process is also referred to as `linting' code....
• lint: [from UNIX's `lint(1)', named for the bits of fluff it supposedly picks from programs] 1.
  vt. To examine a program closely for style, language usage, and portability problems, esp....
• lint [from Unix's lint(1), named for the bits of fluff it supposedly picks from programs] 1.
  vt. To examine a program closely for style, language usage, and portability problems, esp....
• prettyprint: /prit'ee-print/ (alt. `pretty-print') v.
  1. To generate `pretty' human-readable output from a {hairy} internal representatio...
• whack: v. According to arch-hacker James Gosling, to ".
  ..modify a program with no idea whatsoever how it works....
• dike: vt. To remove or disable a portion of something, as a wire from a computer or a subroutine from a program.
  A standard slogan is "When in doubt, dike it out"....
• unixism: n. A piece of code or a coding technique that depends on the protected multi-tasking environment with relatively low process-spawn overhead that exists on virtual-memory UNIX systems.
  Common {unixism}s include: gratuitous use of `fork(2)'...
• kangaroo code: n. Syn. {spaghetti code}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• flatten: vt. To remove structural information, esp.
  o filter something with an implicit tree structure into a simple sequence of leave...