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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>joe code</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="../J.html" title="J"/><link rel="previous" href="jock.html" title="jock"/><link rel="next" href="joe-job.html" title="joe-job"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">joe code</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="jock.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">J</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="joe-job.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="joe-code"/><dt xmlns="" id="joe-code"><b>joe code</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/joh´ kohd`/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. Code that is overly <a href="../T/tense.html"><i class="glossterm">tense</i></a> and
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unmaintainable. “<span class="quote"><a href="../P/Perl.html"><i class="glossterm">Perl</i></a> may be a handy program,
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but if you look at the source, it's complete joe code.</span>” </p></dd><dd><p> 2. Badly written, possibly buggy code.</p></dd><dd><p>Correspondents wishing to remain anonymous have fingered a particular
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Joe at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and observed that usage has drifted
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slightly; the original sobriquet ‘Joe code’ was intended in
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sense 1.</p><p>1994 update: This term has now generalized to ‘<name>
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code’, used to designate code with distinct characteristics traceable
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to its author. “<span class="quote">This section doesn't check for a NULL return from
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malloc()! Oh. No wonder! It's Ed code!</span>”. Used most often with a
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programmer who has left the shop and thus is a convenient scapegoat for
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anything that is wrong with the project.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="jock.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../J.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="joe-job.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">jock </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> joe-job</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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