Runes




1. Anything that requires heavy wizardry or black art to parse: core dumps, JCL commands, APL or code in a language you haven't a clue how to read.

Not quite as bad as line noise, but close.

Compare casting the runes, Great Runes.

2. Special display characters (for example, the high-half graphics on an IBM PC).

[Jargon File]





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Ruby
rude
RUFL
run
RUNCIBLE
 casting the runes
chase pointers
dump
examining the entrails
Great Runes
 runic
run-length encoding
Run Length Limited
run time
run-time environment