line noise
line noise
[′līn ‚nȯiz]line noise
(communications)2. Any chunk of data in a file or elsewhere that looks likethe results of electrical line noise.
3. Text that is theoretically a readable text or programsource but employs syntax so bizarre that it looks like linenoise. Yes, there are languages this ugly. The canonicalexample is TECO, whose input syntax is often said to beindistinguishable from line noise. Other non-WYSIWYGeditors, such as Multics "qed" and Unix "ed", in thehands of a real hacker, also qualify easily, as dodeliberately obfuscated languages such as INTERCAL.