May 15, 2003

hair

n.

[back-formation from hairy] The complications that make something hairy. Decoding TECO commands requires a certain amount of hair. Often seen in the phrase infinite hair, which connotes extreme complexity. Also in hairiferous (tending to promote hair growth): GNUMACS elisp encourages lusers to write complex editing modes. Yeah, it's pretty hairiferous all right. (or just: Hair squared!)

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:44 AM

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