JargonFile/entries/Saturday-night special.txt

8 lines
322 B
Plaintext
Raw Normal View History

2014-04-26 10:52:28 -04:00
Saturday-night special
2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
n. [from police slang for a cheap handgun] A quick-and-dirty program or
feature kluged together during off hours, under a deadline, and in response
to pressure from a salescritter. Such hacks are dangerously unreliable, but
all too often sneak into a production release after insufficient review.