joe code

joe code

/joh' kohd"/ 1. Code that is overly tense andunmaintainable. "Perl may be a handy program, but if youlook at the source, it's complete joe code."

2. Badly written, possibly buggy code.

Correspondents wishing to remain anonymous have fingered aparticular Joe at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory andobserved that usage has drifted slightly; the originalsobriquet "Joe code" was intended in sense 1.