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rude
adj. 1. (of a program) Badly written. 2. Functionally poor, e.g., a program
that is very difficult to use because of gratuitously poor (random?) design
decisions. Oppose cuspy. 3. Anything that manipulates a shared resource
without regard for its other users in such a way as to cause a (non-fatal)
problem. Examples: programs that change tty modes without resetting them on
exit, or windowing programs that keep forcing themselves to the top of the
window stack.