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• 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 specificatio
  useful, but misdesigned. 2. Frequently used as a sardonic comment on a program's utility....
• demented: adj. Yet another term of disgust used to describe a program.
  The connotation in this case is that the program works as designed, but the design is bad....
• working as designed adj. [IBM] 1. In conformance to a wrong or inappropriate specificatio
  useful, but misdesigned. 2. Frequently used as a sardonic comment on a program's utility....
• 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 because it's a competent implementation of a bad desig...
• demented adj. Yet another term of disgust used to describe a malfunctioning program.
  The connotation in this case is that the program works as designed, but the design is bad....
• evil: adj. As used by hackers, implies that some system, program, person, or institution is sufficiently maldesigned as to be not worth the bother of dealing with.
  Unlike the adjectives in the {cretinous}/{losing}/{brain-damaged} series, `evil' does not imply incompetence or bad design, but rather a set of goals or design criteria fatally incompatible with the speaker's....
• hung: [from `hung up'] adj. Equivalent to {wedged}, but more common at UNIX/C sites.
  Not generally used of people. Syn. with {locked up}, {wedged}...
• yntactic salt: n. The opposite of {syntactic sugar}, a feature designed to make it harder to write bad code.
  Specifically, syntactic salt is a hoop the programmer must jump through just to prove that he knows what's going on, rather than to express a program action....