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  • Turing tar-pit
    n. 1. A place where anything is possible but nothing of interest is practical. Alan Turing helped lay the foundations of computer science... VIEW ENTIRE DEFINITION


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    driver

    n. 1. The main loop of an event-processing program; the code that gets commands and dispatches them for execution. 2. [techspeak] In `device driver', code designed to handle a particular peripheral device such as a magnetic disk or tape unit. 3. In the TeX world and the computerized typesetting world in general, `driver' also means a program that translates some device-independent or other common format to something a real device can actually understand.