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