Bad and Wrong adj.
[Durham, UK] Said of something that
is both badly designed and wrongly executed. This common term is
the prototype of, and is used by contrast with, three less common
terms - Bad and Right (a kludge, something ugly but functional);
Good and Wrong (an overblown GUI or other attractive nuisance); and
(rare praise) Good and Right. These terms entered common use at
Durham c.1994 and may have been imported from elsewhere. There are
standard abbreviations: they start with B&R, a typo for "Bad and
Wrong". Consequently, B&W is actually "Bad and Right", G&R =
"Good and Wrong", and G&W = "Good and Right". Compare
evil and rude, Good Thing,
[Durham, UK] Said of something that
is both badly designed and wrongly executed. This common term is
the prototype of, and is used by contrast with, three less common
terms - Bad and Right (a kludge, something ugly but functional);
Good and Wrong (an overblown GUI or other attractive nuisance); and
(rare praise) Good and Right. These terms entered common use at
Durham c.1994 and may have been imported from elsewhere. There are
standard abbreviations: they start with B&R, a typo for "Bad and
Wrong". Consequently, B&W is actually "Bad and Right", G&R =
"Good and Wrong", and G&W = "Good and Right". Compare
evil and rude, Good Thing,
Related:
- Bad Thing n.
[very common; from the 1930 Sellar &
Yeatman parody "1066 And All That"] Something that... - Common: percent; <percent sign>; mod; grapes.
Rare: [double-oh-seven]. & Common: <ampersand>... - Bad Thing: [from the 1930 Sellar & Yeatman parody "1066 And
All That"] n.
Something that can't possibly result in improvement... - kluge /klooj/
[from the German `klug', clever; poss.
related to Polish `klucz' (a key, a hint, a main point)]... - indent style n.
[C, C++, and Java programmers] The rules
one uses to indent code in a readable fashion.
There are four major C indent styles, described... - bit-paired keyboard n.,obs.
(alt. `bit-shift
keyboard') A non-standard keyboard layout that seems to have
originated with the Teletype ASR-33 and remained common for several
years on early computer equipment.
The ASR-33 was a mechanical device (see EOU), so... - Good Thing n.,adj.
[very common; often capitalized;
always pronounced as if capitalized.] 1. Self-evidently... - A good man gone wrong is usually a bad man
found out... - No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are
but names very readily transferable to that or this;
the only right is what is after my own constitution...
