May 15, 2003

marbles

pl.n.

[from mainstream lost all his/her marbles] The minimum needed to build your way further up some hierarchy of tools or abstractions. After a bad system crash, you need to determine if the machine has enough marbles to come up on its own, or enough marbles to allow a rebuild from backups, or if you need to rebuild from scratch. This compiler doesn't even have enough marbles to compile hello world.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:39 AM

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