jargon (From the custom of the Easter Egg hunt observed in
the US and many parts of Europe)
1. A message hidden in the
object code of a program as a
joke, intended to be found by persons disassembling or
browsing the code.
2. A message, graphic, sound effect, or other behaviour
response to some undocumented set of commands or keystrokes,
intended as a joke or to display program credits.
One well-known early Easter egg found in a couple of
even satellite control computers, have much more elaborate
eggs hidden in
ROM, including lists of the developers' names
snatches of music. The
Tandy Color Computer 3 (
CoCo) had
images of the entire development team. Microsoft
Excel 97
includes a flight simulator!
(2003-06-23)