Working as Designed n.Colloquialism used by software
maintenance people to indicate that while there is a
problem, it is not considered to affect the program
when the program is used for the purpose for which it
was designed. Of course, nobody uses programs the way
that programmers design them. The general user response
is usually some nasty remark about the 'designers'
mental condition when he designed it.
-- IBM Jargon File
maintenance people to indicate that while there is a
problem, it is not considered to affect the program
when the program is used for the purpose for which it
was designed. Of course, nobody uses programs the way
that programmers design them. The general user response
is usually some nasty remark about the 'designers'
mental condition when he designed it.
-- IBM Jargon File
Related:
- software rot n.
Term used to describe the tendency of
software that has not been used in a while to lose;
such failure may be semi-humorously ascribed to... - To make people happy, you have to let them feel like they are in control of
their environment.
To do this, you need to correctly interpret their actions... - for the rest of us: [from the Mac slogan "The computer for the
rest of us"] adj.
1. Used to describe a {spiffy} product whose affordability... - for the rest of us adj.
[from the Mac slogan "The computer
for the rest of us"] 1.
Used to describe a spiffy product whose affordability... - casting the runes n.
What a guru does when you ask him
or her to run a particular program and type at it because it never
works for anyone else;
esp. used when nobody can ever see what the guru... - BAD /B-A-D/ adj.
[IBM: acronym, `Broken As Designed']
Said of a program that is bogus because of bad design and
misfeatures rather than because of bugginess.
See working as designed... - BAD: /B-A-D/ [IBM: acronym, `Broken As Designed'] adj.
Said of a program that is {bogus} because of bad... - virus n.
[from the obvious analogy with biological viruses,
via SF] A cracker program that searches out other programs... - working as designed adj.
[IBM] 1. In conformance to a wrong
or inappropriate specification;
useful, but misdesigned. 2. Frequently used as...
