nasal demon

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English

Etymology

From a 1992 post on the Usenet newsgroup comp.std.c; see [1].

Noun

nasal demon (plural nasal demons)

  1. (computing, programming, slang, humorous, mostly plural) Unexpected behavior of a compiled program as a result of source code that employs an undefined construct.

References

  • Usenet newsgroups: [2]
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