joe code

2 definitions found

joe code - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  joe code
  
     /joh' kohd"/ 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.
  
     [Jargon File]
  

joe code - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  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.