Write-only code

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write-only code

Usage: n.
Derivation: A play on read-only memory

write-only code: n.

[a play on read-only memory] Code so arcane, complex, or ill-structured that it cannot be modified or even comprehended by anyone but its author, and possibly not even by him/her. A Bad Thing.

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Sources

Source: write-only code, in The Jargon File, version 4.4.7.

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