2014-04-26 14:52:28 +00:00
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bug-compatible
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2014-04-26 15:54:15 +00:00
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adj. [common] Said of a design or revision that has been badly compromised
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2014-07-26 07:53:53 +00:00
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by a requirement to be compatible with fossils or misfeatures in other
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2014-04-26 15:54:15 +00:00
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programs or (esp.) previous releases of itself. MS-DOS 2.0 used \ as a path
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separator to be bug-compatible with some cretin's choice of / as an option
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character in 1.0.
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