joe code

( /joh´ kohd`/, n.)

   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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