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buried treasure


buried treasure: n. A surprising piece of code found in some
   program.  While usually not wrong, it tends to vary from crufty
   to bletcherous, and has lain undiscovered only because it was
   functionally correct, however horrible it is.  Used sarcastically,
   because what is found is anything *but* treasure.  Buried
   treasure almost always needs to be dug up and removed.  "I just
   found that the scheduler sorts its queue using bubble sort!
   Buried treasure!"