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.

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(1994-10-27)