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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