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]
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