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• working as designed adj. [IBM] 1. In conformance to a wrong or inappropriate specificatio
  useful, but misdesigned. 2. Frequently used as a sardonic comment on a program's utility....
• BAD: /B-A-D/ [IBM: acronym, `Broken As Designed'] adj.
  Said of a program that is {bogus} because of bad design and misfeatures rather than because of bugginess....
• diff: /dif/ n. 1. A change listing, especially giving differences between (and additions to) source code or documents (the term is often used in the plural `diffs').
  Send me your diffs for the Jargon File!" Compare {vdiff}....
• bogus: adj. 1. Non-functional. "Your patches are bogus.
  2. Useless. "OPCON is a bogus program." 3. False....
• cuspy: /kuhs'pee/ [WPI: from the {DEC} abbreviation CUSP, for `Commonly Used System Program', i.
  e., a utility program used by many people] adj. 1....
• BAD /B-A-D/ adj. [IBM: acronym, `Broken As Designed'] Said of a program that is bogus because of bad design and misfeatures rather than because of bugginess.
  See working as designed....
• GIGO: /gi:'goh/ [acronym] 1. `Garbage In, Garbage Out' --- usually said in response to {luser}s who complain that a program didn't "do the right thing" when given imperfect input or otherwise mistreated in some way.
  Also commonly used to describe failures in human decision making due to faulty, incomplete, or imprecise data....
• fossil: n. 1. In software, a misfeature that becomes understandable only in historical context, as a remnant of times past retained so as not to break compatibility.
  Example: the retention of octal as default base for string escapes in {C}, in spite of the better match of hexadecimal to ASCII and modern byte-addressable architectures....
• plat: n. 1. Name used in many places (DEC, IBM, and others) for the asterisk (`*') character (ASCII 0101010).
  This may derive from the `squashed-bug' appearance of the asterisk on many early line printers....