/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]