demented
Yet another term of disgust used to describe a program. The connotation in this
case is that the program works as designed, but the design is bad. Said, for
example, of a program that generates large numbers of meaningless error
messages, implying that it is on the brink of imminent collapse.
[Jargon File]
(1994-12-07)
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