1. A huge volume of spurious error-message output produced by a
compiler with poor error recovery. Too frequently, one trivial syntax
error (such as a missing `)' or `}') throws the parser out of synch
so that much of the remaining program text is interpreted as garbaged
or ill-formed.
2. A chain of Usenet followups, each adding some trivial variation or
riposte to the text of the previous one, all of which is reproduced
in the new message; an {include war} in which the object is to create
a sort of communal graffito.
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