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fascist: adj. 1. [common] Said of a computer system with excessive or annoying
security barriers, usage limits, or access policies. The implication is
that said policies are preventing hackers from getting interesting work
done. The variant fascistic seems to
have been preferred at MIT, poss. by analogy with touristic (see tourist
or under the influence of German/Yiddish faschistisch). 2. In the design of languages and other software tools, the fascist alternative is the most restrictive
and structured way of capturing a particular function; the implication is
that this may be desirable in order to simplify the implementation or
provide tighter error checking. Compare bondage-and-discipline
language, although that term is global rather than
local.
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