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mangler
[DEC] n. A manager. Compare {mango}; see also {management}. Note that {system mangler} is somewhat different in connotation.
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tense
adj. Of programs, very clever and efficient. A tense piece of code often got that way because it was highly
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med, but sometimes it was just based on a great idea. A comment in a clever routine by Mike Kazar, once a grad-student hacker at CMU "This routine is so tense it will bring tears to your eyes." A tense programmer is one who produces tense code.
