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code police

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(humour)code police - (By analogy with George Orwell's "Thought Police" in "1984") A mythical team of Gestapo-like storm troopers that enforce programming style rules. Used ironically, to suggest that the practice under discussion is condemned mainly by anal-retentive weenies. "Dike out that goto or the code police will get you!" The ironic usage is perhaps more common.


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Much of the book is taken up with the facts of their lives in Denver, and the events that happened that drove the girls' father to make the excruciating decision to betray the code police operate under, to always defend one another.
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