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cookbook
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n. [from amateur electronics and radio] A book of small code segments that
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the reader can use to do various magic things in programs. Cookbooks,
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slavishly followed, can lead one into voodoo programming , but are useful
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for hackers trying to monkey up small programs in unknown languages. This
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function is analogous to the role of phrasebooks in human languages.
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