program that generates large numbers of meaningless error messages,
implying that it is on the brink of imminent collapse. Compare
{wonky}, {bozotic}.

:demigod: /n./ A hacker with years of experience, a world-wide
reputation, and a major role in the development of at least one
design, tool, or game used by or known to more than half of the
hacker community. To qualify as a genuine demigod, the person must
recognizably identify with the hacker community and have helped
shape it. Major demigods include Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie
(co-inventors of {{Unix}} and {C}), Richard M. Stallman
(inventor of {EMACS}), Linus Torvalds (inventor of Linux), and
most recently James Gosling (inventor of Java). In their hearts of
hearts, most hackers dream of someday becoming demigods themselves,
and more than one major software project has been driven to
completion by the author's veiled hopes of apotheosis. See also
{net.god}, {true-hacker}.

:demo: /de'moh/ [short for `demonstration'] 1. /v./ To
demonstrate a product or prototype. A far more effective way of
inducing bugs to manifest than any number of {test} runs,
especially when important people are watching. 2. /n./ The act of
demoing. "I've gotta give a demo of the drool-proof interface;
how does it work again?" 3. /n./ Esp. as `demo version', can
refer either to an early, barely-functional version of a program
which can be used for demonstration purposes as long as the
operator uses *exactly* the right commands and skirts its
numerous bugs, deficiencies, and unimplemented portions, or to a
special version of a program (frequently with some features
crippled) which is distributed at little or no cost to the user for