- CONNECTOR CONSPIRACY
- [probably came into prominence with the
appearance of the KL-10, none of whose connectors match anything
else] n. The tendency of manufacturers (or, by extension,
programmers or purveyors of anything) to come up with new products
which don't fit together with the old stuff, thereby making you buy
either all new stuff or expensive interface devices.
- CONS
- [from LISP]1. v. To add a new element to a list.
2. CONS UP:
v. To synthesize from smaller pieces: "to cons up an example".
- CRASH
- 1. n. A sudden, usually drastic failure. Most often said of the
system (q.v., definition #1), sometimes of magnetic disk drives.
"Three lusers lost their files in last night's disk crash." A disk
crash which entails the read/write heads dropping onto the surface
of the disks and scraping off the oxide may also be referred to as
a "head crash".
2. v. To fail suddenly. "Has the system just
crashed?" Also used transitively to indicate the cause of the
crash (usually a person or a program, or both). "Those idiots
playing spacewar crashed the system." Sometimes said of people.
See GRONK OUT.
- CRETIN
- 1. n. Congenital loser (q.v.).
2. CRETINOUS: adj. See
BLETCHEROUS and BAGBITING. Usage: somewhat ad hominem.
- CRLF
- (cur'lif, sometimes crul'lif) n. A carriage return (CR) followed
by a line feed (LF). See TERPRI.
- CROCK
- [probably from "layman" slang, which in turn may be derived from
"crock of shit"] n. An awkward feature or programming technique
that ought to be made cleaner. Example: Using small integers to
represent error codes without the program interpreting them to the
user is a crock. Also, a technique that works acceptably but which
is quite prone to failure if disturbed in the least, for example
depending on the machine opcodes having particular bit patterns so
that you can use instructions as data words too; a tightly woven,
almost completely unmodifiable structure.
- CRUFTY
- [from "cruddy"] adj.
1. Poorly built, possibly overly complex.
"This is standard old crufty DEC software". Hence CRUFT, n. shoddy
construction. Also CRUFT, v. [from hand cruft, pun on hand craft]
to write assembler code for something normally (and better) done by
a compiler.
2. Unpleasant, especially to the touch, often with
encrusted junk. Like spilled coffee smeared with peanut butter and
catsup. Hence CRUFT, n. disgusting mess.
3. Generally unpleasant.
CRUFTY or CRUFTIE n. A small crufty object (see FROB); often one
which doesn't fit well into the scheme of things. "A LISP property
list is a good place to store crufties (or, random cruft)."
[Note: Does CRUFT have anything to do with the Cruft Lab at
Harvard? I don't know, though I was a Harvard student. - GLS]
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