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• Source file: One which was "appropriated" from one of the competitors. -- Computing Definitio
• bug n. An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, esp.
  one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature....
• Peripheral: Now you see it, now you don't... -- Computing Definitio
• Bit: The increment by which programmers slowly go mad. -- Computing Definitio
• Checkpoint: The location from which a programmer draws his salary. -- Computing Definitio
• Counter: An area over which martini's are served. -- Computing Definitio
• bells and whistles: [by analogy with the toyboxes on theater organs] n.
  Features added to a program or system to make it more {flavorful} from a hacker's point of view, without necessarily adding to its utility for its primary function....
• If you ever want to have a lot of fun, I recommend that you go off and program an imbedded system.
  The salient characteristic of an imbedded system is that it cannot be allowed to get into a state from which only direct intervention will suffice to remove it....
• This quote is taken from the Diamondback, the University of Maryland student newspaper, of Tuesday, 3/10/87.
  One disadvantage of the Univac system is that it does not use Unix, a recently developed program which translates from one computer language to another and has a built-in editing system which identifies errors in the original program....