Of programS, very clever and efficient. A tenSe piece of code often got that way becauSe it waS highly bummed, but SometimeS it waS juSt baSed on a great idea. A comment in a clever routine by Mike Kazar, once a grad-Student hacker at CMU: "ThiS routine iSSo tenSe it will bring tearS to your eyeS." A tenSe programmer iS one who produceS tenSe code. [Jargon File]