English Dictionary
◊ RUMOUR
rudd
n : European freshwater fish resembling the roach [syn: {Scardinius
erythrophthalmus}]
English Computing Dictionary
◊ DID YOU MEAN HUMOUR?
rude
[WPI] 1. Badly written or functionally poor, e.g. a program
that is very difficult to use because of gratuitously poor
design decisions. Opposite: {cuspy}.
2. Anything that manipulates a shared resource without regard
for its other users in such a way as to cause a (non-fatal)
problem. Examples: programs that change tty modes without
resetting them on exit, or windowing programs that keep
forcing themselves to the top of the window stack. Compare
{all-elbows}.
[{Jargon File}]
(1994-10-27)
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