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• Nothing is 100% certain, bug free or IBM compatible.
• 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.
• 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....
• 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....
• 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...
• bug n. An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, esp.
  one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature....
• 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....
• patch 1. n. A temporary addition to a piece of code, usually as a quick-and-dirty remedy to an existing bug or misfeature.
  A patch may or may not work, and may or may not eventually be incorporated permanently into the program....