/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]