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