JargonFile/entries/marbles.txt
2014-04-26 15:52:28 +01:00

4 lines
415 B
Plaintext

marbles
pl.n. [from mainstream lost all his/her marbles ] The minimum needed to build your way further up some hierarchy of tools or abstractions. After a bad system crash, you need to determine if the machine has enough marbles to come up on its own, or enough marbles to allow a rebuild from backups, or if you need to rebuild from scratch. This compiler doesn't even have enough marbles to compile hello world.