<programming> To grovel over hardcopy of source code,
mentally simulating the control flow; a method of catching
bugs. No longer common practice in this age of on-screen
editing, fast compiles, and sophisticated debuggers - though
some maintain stoutly that it ought to be.
Compare dry run, eyeball search, vdiff, vgrep.
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(1996-05-13)
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