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• programming: n. 1. The art of debugging a blank sheet of paper (or, in these days of on-line editing, the art of debugging an empty file).
  2. A pastime similar to banging one's head against a wall, but with fewer opportunities for reward....
• programming n. 1. The art of debugging a blank sheet of paper (or, in these days of on-line editing, the art of debugging an empty file).
  Bloody instructions which, being taught, return to plague their inventor" ("Macbeth", Act 1, Scene 7) 2....
• One of the first things you learn when the kids start to use the car is how far you can drive when the gas guage stands on empty.
• Your empty file directory has been deleted.
• bread crumbs n. Debugging statements inserted into a program that emit output or log indicators of the program's state to a file so you can see where it dies or pin down the cause of surprising behavior.
  The term is probably a reference to the Hansel and Gretel story from the Brothers Grimm or the older French folktale of Thumbelina...
• bread crumbs: n. Debugging statements inserted into a program that emit output or log indicators of the program's {state} to a file so you can see where it dies or pin down the cause of surprising behavior.
  The term is probably a reference to the Hansel and Gretel story from the Brothers Grimm...
• Any give program, when running, needs debugging. Any debugged program is obsolete.
• WOMAN.ZIP: Great program, but the "README.1ST" file is missing.
• whack v. According to arch-hacker James Gosling (designer of NeWS, GOSMACS and Java), to ".
  ..modify a program with no idea whatsoever how it works....