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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>buried treasure</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="../B.html" title="B"/><link rel="previous" href="burble.html" title="burble"/><link rel="next" href="burn-a-CD.html" title="burn a CD"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">buried treasure</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="burble.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="burn-a-CD.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="buried-treasure"/><dt xmlns="" id="buried-treasure"><b>buried treasure</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A surprising piece of code found in some program. While usually not
wrong, it tends to vary from <a href="../C/crufty.html"><i class="glossterm">crufty</i></a> to
<a href="bletcherous.html"><i class="glossterm">bletcherous</i></a>, and has lain undiscovered only because
it was functionally correct, however horrible it is. Used sarcastically,
because what is found is anything <span class="emphasis"><em>but</em></span> treasure.
Buried treasure almost always needs to be dug up and removed. &#8220;<span class="quote">I
just found that the scheduler sorts its queue using
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