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joe code
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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/joh kohd`/ , n. 1. Code that is overly tense and unmaintainable. Perl may
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be a handy program, but if you look at the source, it's complete joe code.
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2. Badly written, possibly buggy code. Correspondents wishing to remain
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anonymous have fingered a particular Joe at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
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and observed that usage has drifted slightly; the original sobriquet Joe
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code was intended in sense 1. 1994 update: This term has now generalized to
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name code , used to designate code with distinct characteristics traceable
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to its author. This section doesn't check for a NULL return from malloc()!
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Oh. No wonder! It's Ed code!. Used most often with a programmer who has left
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the shop and thus is a convenient scapegoat for anything that is wrong with
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the project.
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