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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>BAD</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../B.html" title="B"/><link rel="previous" href="backward-combatability.html" title="backward combatability"/><link rel="next" href="Bad-and-Wrong.html" title="Bad and Wrong"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">BAD</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="backward-combatability.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="Bad-and-Wrong.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="BAD"/><dt xmlns="" id="BAD"><b>BAD</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/B<>A<EFBFBD>D/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [IBM: acronym, &#8220;<span class="quote">Broken As Designed</span>&#8221;] Said of a program
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