buried treasure

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!"

[Jargon File]