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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>clean</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="../C.html" title="C"/><link rel="previous" href="Classic-C.html" title="Classic C"/><link rel="next" href="click-of-death.html" title="click of death"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">clean</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Classic-C.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">C</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="click-of-death.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="clean"/><dt xmlns="" id="clean"><b>clean</b></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. <span class="grammar">adj.</span> Used of hardware or
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software designs, implies ‘elegance in the small’, that is, a
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design or implementation that may not hold any surprises but does things in
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a way that is reasonably intuitive and relatively easy to comprehend from
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the outside. The antonym is ‘grungy’ or
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<a href="crufty.html"><i class="glossterm">crufty</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p>2. <span class="grammar">v.</span> To remove unneeded or
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undesired files in a effort to reduce clutter: “<span class="quote">I'm cleaning up my
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account.</span>” “<span class="quote">I cleaned up the garbage and now have 100 Meg free
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on that partition.</span>”</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Classic-C.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../C.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="click-of-death.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Classic C </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> click of death</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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