meaning of twentel

1. Twentel A functional language. ["The TWENTEL System Version 1. ", H. Kroeze, CS Dept TR, U Twente, 1986]. twiddle 1. The tilde character. 2. To make a small or insignificant change. E. g. twiddling a program often fixes one bug and generates several new ones see also shotgun debugging. Bits are often twiddled. Twiddling a switch or knob implies much less sense of purpose than toggling or tweaking it; see frobnicate. Bit twiddling connotes aimlessness, and at best doesnt specify what youre doing to the bit; to "toggle a bit" has a more specific meaning. [Jargon File]

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