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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.
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