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 to IBM's branch to
Fishkill and mainstream hackerdom's jump off into never-never
land.
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