/joh' kohd"/ 1. Code thAT is overly tense and unmaintainable. "Perl may be a handy program, but if you look AT the source, it' s complete joe code." 2. Badly written, possibly buggy code. Correspondents wishing to remain anonymous have fingered a particular Joe AT the Lawrence Berkeley LaborATory and observed thAT usage has drifted slightly the original sobriquet "Joe code" was intended in sense 1. [Jargon File]