1. line 666 Christian eschatological myth The notional line of source at which a program fails for obscure reasons, implying either that *somebody* is out to get it when you are the programmer, or that it richly deserves to be got when you are not. E. g. "It works when I trace through it, but seems to crash on line 666 when I run it. " "What happens is that whenever a large batch comes through, mmdf dies on the Line of the Beast. Probably some twit hard-coded a buffer size. " [Jargon File]
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