May 15, 2003

tense

adj.

Of programs, very clever and efficient. A tense piece of code often got that way because it was highly tuned, 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.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:27 AM

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