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• 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....
• 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....
• wrap around: vi. (also n. `wraparound' and v. shorthand `wrap') 1.
  [techspeak] The action of a counter that starts over at zero or at `minus infinity' (see {infinity}) after its maximum value has been reached, and continues incrementing, either because it is programmed to do so or because of an overflow (as when a car's odometer starts over at 0)....
• buried treasure: n. A surprising piece of code found in some program.
  While usually not wrong, it tends to vary from {crufty} to {bletcherous}, and has lain undiscovered only because it was functionally correct, however horrible it is....
• copybroke: /kop'ee-brohk/ adj. 1. [play on `copyright'] Used to describe an instance of a copy-protected program that has been `broken'
  hat is, a copy with the copy-protection scheme disabled....
• ap: 1. n. A program interrupt, usually an interrupt caused by some exceptional situation in the user program.
  In most cases, the OS performs some action, then returns control to the program....
• oftware rot n. Term used to describe the tendency of software that has not been used in a while to lose
  uch failure may be semi-humorously ascribed to bit rot....
• cough and die: v. Syn. {barf}. Connotes that the program is throwing its hands up by design rather than because of a bug or oversight.
  The parser saw a control-A in its input where it was looking for a printable, so it coughed and died....
• engine: n. 1. A piece of hardware that encapsulates some function but can't be used without some kind of {front end}.
  Today we have, especially, `print engine': the guts of a laser printer....