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    n. 1. A huge volume of spurious error-message output produced by a compiler with poor error recovery. This can happen when one initial... VIEW ENTIRE DEFINITION


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    app

    /ap/ n. Short for `application program', as opposed to a systems program. What systems vendors are forever chasing developers to create for their environments so they can sell more boxes. Hackers tend not to think of the things they themselves run as apps; thus, in hacker parlance the term excludes compilers, program editors, games, and messaging systems, though a user would consider all those to be apps. Oppose tool, {operating system}.