/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]