nasal demon

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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

• Usenet newsgroups: [2]