:BAD: /B-A-D/ [IBM: acronym, `Broken As Designed'] adj. Said
of a program that is {bogus} because of bad design and misfeatures
rather than because of bugginess. See {working as designed}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
of a program that is {bogus} because of bad design and misfeatures
rather than because of bugginess. See {working as designed}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Related:
- 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... - working as designed: [IBM] adj. 1. In conformance to a wrong or
inappropriate specification;
useful, but misdesigned. 2. Frequently used as a... - demented: adj. Yet another term of disgust used to describe a
program.
The connotation in this case is that the program works... - working as designed adj.
[IBM] 1. In conformance to a wrong
or inappropriate specification;
useful, but misdesigned. 2. Frequently used as... - evil and rude: adj. Both {evil} and {rude}, but with the
additional connotation that the rudeness was due to malice rather
than incompetence.
Thus, for example: Microsoft's Windows NT is evil... - demented adj.
Yet another term of disgust used to
describe a malfunctioning program.
The connotation in this case is that the program... - evil: adj. As used by hackers, implies that some system,
program, person, or institution is sufficiently... - hung: [from `hung up'] adj. Equivalent to {wedged},
but more common at UNIX/C sites. Not generally... - syntactic salt: n. The opposite of {syntactic sugar},
a feature designed to make it harder to write bad...
