May 15, 2003

rude

[WPI] adj.

1. (of a program) Badly written.

2. Functionally poor, e.g., a program that is very difficult to use because of gratuitously poor (random?) design decisions. Oppose cuspy.

3. Anything that manipulates a shared resource without regard for its other users in such a way as to cause a (non-fatal) problem. Examples: programs that change tty modes without resetting them on exit, or windowing programs that keep forcing themselves to the top of the window stack.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:31 AM

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