meaning of gan
1. Began; commenced.
2. of Gin
3. GAN Generating and Analyzing Networks. "GAN - A System for Generating and Analyzing Activity Networks", A. Schurmann, CACM 1110 Oct 1968. GANDALF A software development environment from Carnegie Mellon University. gang bang The use of large numbers of loosely coupled programmers in an attempt to wedge a great many features into a product in a short time. Though there have been memorable gang bangs e. g. that over-the-weekend assembler port mentioned in Steven Levys "Hackers", most are perpetrated by large companies trying to meet deadlines; the inevitable result is enormous buggy masses of code entirely lacking in orthogonality. When market-driven managers make a list of all the features the competition has and assign one programmer to implement each, the probability of maintaining a coherent or even functional design goes infinitesimal. See also firefighting, Mongolian Hordes technique, Conways Law. [Jargon File] GAP
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