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weeds
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n. 1. Refers to development projects or algorithms that have no possible
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relevance or practical application. Comes from off in the weeds. Used in
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phrases like lexical analysis for microcode is serious weeds.... 2. At
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CDC/ETA before its demise, the phrase go off in the weeds was equivalent
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mainstream hackerdom's jump off into never-never land.
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