BUG-COMPATIBLE


Meaning of BUG-COMPATIBLE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ adj. ]

[common] Said of a design or revision that has been badly compromised by a requirement to be compatible with fossil s or misfeature s in other programs or (esp.) previous releases of itself. "MS-DOS 2.0 used \ as a path separator to be bug-compatible with some cretin's choice of / as an option character in 1.0."

Jargon File English vocabulary.      Английский словарь жаргона.