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• grunge /gruhnj/ n. 1. That which is grungy, or that which makes it so.
  2. [Cambridge] Code which is inaccessible due to changes in other parts of the program....
• dead code: n. Routines that can never be accessed because all calls to them have been removed
  or code that cannot be reached because it is guarded by a control structure that provably must always transfer control somewhere else....
• dead code n. Routines that can never be accessed because all calls to them have been removed
  or code that cannot be reached because it is guarded by a control structure that provably must always transfer control somewhere else....
• English: 1. n.,obs. The source code for a program, which may be in any language, as opposed to the linkable or executable binary produced from it by a compiler.
  The idea behind the term is that to a real hacker, a program written in his favorite programming language is at least as readable as English....
• crock: [from the American scatologism `crock of shit'] n.
  1. An awkward feature or programming technique that ought to be made cleaner....
• hot spot: n. 1. [primarily used by C/UNIX programmers, but spreading] It is received wisdom that in most programs, less than 10% of the code eats 90% of the execution time
  if one were to graph instruction visits versus code addresses, one would typically see a few huge spikes amidst a lot of low-level noise....
• bit twiddling: n. 1. (pejorative) An exercise in tuning (see {tune}) in which incredible amounts of time and effort go to produce little noticeable improveme
  often with the result that the code becomes incomprehensible....
• PDL: /P-D-L/, /pid'l/, /p*d'l/ or /puhd'l/ 1. n. `Program Design Language'.
  Any of a large class of formal and profoundly useless pseudo-languages in which {management} forces one to design programs....
• demo mode: [Sun] n. 1. The state of being {heads down} in order to finish code in time for a {demo}, usually due yesterday.
  2. A mode in which video games sit by themselves running through a portion of the game, also known as `attract mode'....