dike vt.
To remove or disable a portion of something, as
a wire from a computer or a subroutine from a program. A standard
slogan is "When in doubt, dike it out". (The implication is that it
is usually more effective to attack software problems by reducing
complexity than by increasing it.) The word `dikes' is widely used
to mean `diagonal cutters', a kind of wire cutter. To `dike
something out' means to use such cutters to remove
something. Indeed, the TMRC Dictionary defined dike as "to attack
with dikes". Among hackers this term has been metaphorically
extended to informational objects such as sections of code.
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