Interesting trick: https://www.stefanjudis.de/hidden-messages-in-javascript-property-names.html

Non-volative file system. http://phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NOVA-File-System

this was on my programming language class's practice exam

when you forget the shell quoting rules but you are too lazy to open an editor to write your commit message

$ git commit -m 'adding a place for stuff that doesn'"'"'t quite fit'

@cjhowe : yeah, the code should be rewritten to take advantage of tco; right now, it would overflow the stack on long lists