demented

adj : affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad"

[syn: {brainsick}, {crazy}, {distracted}, {disturbed},

{mad}, {sick}, {unbalanced}, {unhinged}]

demented

Yet another term of disgust used to describe a program. The

connotation in this case is that the program works as

designed, but the design is bad. Said, for example, of a

program that generates large numbers of meaningless error

messages, implying that it is on the brink of imminent

collapse.

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(1994-12-07)