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brute force and ignorance
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jargon (BFI) A popular design technique at many software
houses -
brute force coding unrelieved by any knowledge of
how problems have been previously solved in elegant ways.
Dogmatic adherence to design methods tends to encourage this
programming; unfortunately, many never outgrow it.
Also encountered in the variants BFMI - brute force and
massive ignorance, and BFBI - brute force and bloody
ignorance.
(1996-06-12)