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1. Refers to development projects or
algorithm
s that have no
possible relevance or practical application. Comes from "off
in the weeds". Used in phrases like "lexical analysis for
microcode
is serious weeds."
2. At
CDC
/
ETA
before its demise, the phrase "go off in the
weeds" was equivalent to
IBM
's
branch to Fishkill
and
mainstream hackerdom's
jump off into never-never land
.
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