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ANALOG: Hors d'oeuvre, usually made from cheese and
covered
with crushed
nuts.
BACKUP: Opposite of go forward
BATCH PROCESSING: Making a lot of cookies at once
BINARY: Possessing the ability to have friends of
both
sexes
BIT: 12-1/2 cents
BRANCH: If watered, it will grow into a computer
club
(see
computer club)
BUFFER:
Programmer who works in the nude
BUG: 1. Programmer's term for a feature. 2. An
elusive
creature living in a program which
makes it incorrect. Note: The activity
of "debugging"
or removing bugs from a program ends
when a programmer gets tired of doing it, not
when
all
the bugs are removed
CHARACTER DENSITY: The number of very weird people
in
the
office, divided by the floor
space
COMPUTER: A device designed to speed and automate
errors
COMPUTER CLUB: Used to strike computer forcefully
upon
receiving error
messages CODING: An addictive drug
COMPILE: A heap of decomposing vegetable matter
COMPILER: Noah Webster (1758-1843)
CONSOLE: What one does to a "down" computer
CURSOR: An expert in 4-letter words
DUMP: A system programmer's work area
FEATURE: Hardware limitation as described by a
marketing
representative
HARDWARE: The parts of a computer which can be
kicked
KEYBOARD: An instrument used for entering errors
into a
system
LANGUAGE: A system of organizing and defining error
messages
LOOP: See loop
MACHINE-INDEPENDENT PROGRAM: A program which will
not
run
on any machine
MICROCOMPUTER: One millionth of a computer
NULL STRING: The result of a 4-hour database search
ONLINE: The idea that a human should always be
accessible
PASSWORD: The nonsense word taped to your terminal