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evil
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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adj. As used by hackers, implies that some system, program, person, or
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institution is sufficiently maldesigned as to be not worth the bother of
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dealing with. Unlike the adjectives in the cretinous / losing /
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brain-damaged series, evil does not imply incompetence or bad design, but
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rather a set of goals or design criteria fatally incompatible with the
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speaker's. This usage is more an esthetic and engineering judgment than a
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moral one in the mainstream sense. We thought about adding a Blue Glue
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interface but decided it was too evil to deal with. TECO is neat, but it can
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be pretty evil if you're prone to typos. Often pronounced with the first
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syllable lengthened, as /eeee'vil/. Compare evil and rude.
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