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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>tense</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="ten-finger-interface.html" title="ten-finger interface"/><link rel="next" href="tentacle.html" title="tentacle"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">tense</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ten-finger-interface.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="tentacle.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="tense"/><dt xmlns="" id="tense"><b>tense</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Of programs, very clever and efficient. A tense piece of code often
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got that way because it was highly tuned, but sometimes it was just based
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on a great idea. A comment in a clever routine by Mike Kazar, once a
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grad-student hacker at CMU: “<span class="quote">This routine is so tense it will bring
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tears to your eyes.</span>” A tense programmer is one who produces tense
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