a spirit of irony by real hackers years after the fact. 2. /vt./
The
Macintosh resource decompiler. On a Macintosh, many program
structures (including the code itself) are managed in small
segments of the program file known as `resources'; `Rez' and
`DeRez' are a pair of utilities for compiling and decompiling
resource files. Thus, decompiling a resource is `derezzing'.
Usage: very common.

:dead: /adj./ 1. Non-functional; {down}; {crash}ed.
Especially used of hardware. 2. At XEROX PARC, software that is
working but not undergoing continued development and support.
3. Useless; inaccessible. Antonym: `live'. Compare {dead
code}.

:dead code: /n./ Routines that can never be accessed because
all calls to them have been removed, or code that cannot be reached
because it is guarded by a control structure that provably must
always transfer control somewhere else. The presence of dead code
may reveal either logical errors due to alterations in the program
or significant changes in the assumptions and environment of the
program (see also {software rot}); a good compiler should report
dead code so a maintainer can think about what it means.
(Sometimes it simply means that an *extremely* defensive
programmer has inserted {can't happen} tests which really can't
happen -- yet.) Syn. {grunge}. See also {dead}, and
{The Story of Mel, a Real Programmer}.

:dead link: /n./ [WWW] A World-Wide-Web URL that no longer
points to the information it was written to reach. Usually this