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• bug-for-bug compatible: n. Same as {bug-compatible}, with the additional implication that much tedious effort went into ensuring that each (known) bug was replicated.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• Nothing is 100% certain, bug free or IBM compatible.
• I did it! I found the program's last bug bug bug bug bug bug bug bug bug
• The net result is a system that is not only binary compatible with 4.
  3 BSD, but is even bug for bug compatible in almost all features....
• bug-compatible adj. [common] Said of a design or revision that has been badly compromised by a requirement to be compatible with fossils or misfeatures in other programs or (esp.
  ) previous releases of itself. "MS-DOS 2.0 used \ as a path separator to be bug-compatible with some cretin's choice of / as an option character in 1....
• bug-compatible: adj. Said of a design or revision that has been badly compromised by a requirement to be compatible with {fossil}s or {misfeature}s in other programs or (esp.
  ) previous releases of itself. "MS-DOS 2.0 used \ as a path separator to be bug-compatible with some cretin's choice of / as an option character in 1....
• Bug? That's not a bug, that's a feature. -- T. John Wendel
• hysterical reasons: (also `hysterical raisins') n. A variant on the stock phrase "for historical reaso
  indicating specifically that something must be done in some stupid way for backwards compatibility, and moreover that the feature it must be compatible with was the result of a bad design in the first place....
• hysterical reasons n. (also `hysterical raisins') A variant on the stock phrase "for historical reaso
  indicating specifically that something must be done in some stupid way for backwards compatibility, and moreover that the feature it must be compatible with was the result of a bad design in the first place....