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