dry rot

n 1: a crumbling and drying of timber or bulbs or potatoes or

fruit caused by a fungus

2: a fungus causing dry rot

dry run

To execute a program by hand, writing values of

variables and other run-time data on paper, in order to check

its operation or to track down a {bug}. A dry run is an

extreme form of {desk check} and is practical only for fairly

simple programs and small amounts of data.

(1996-05-13)