weeds

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 to IBM's branch to Fishkill and

mainstream hackerdom's jump off into never-never land.

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