nasal demon

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (file)

Noun[edit]

nasal demon (plural nasal demons)

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

References[edit]

  • Usenet newsgroups: [2]