line noise

Noun

Meaning

(computing) Spurious characters due to signal noise in a communications link.

(programming) Data that looks random, as when outputting a binary file as text.

(computing, derogatory) Incomprehensible source code or other textual material (often due to terseness or overuse of operators).

Examples

Python is executable pseudocode. Perl is executable line noise. Bruce Eckel

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