Wango
/wang’goh/ Random bit-level grovelling going on in a system during some unspecified operation. Often used in combination with mumble. For example: “You start with the “.o” file, run it through this postprocessor that does mumble-wango – and it comes out a snazzy object-oriented executable.”
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