As used by a href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=hacker">hacker, implies that some system, program, person, or institution is sufficiently maldesigned as to be not worth the bother of dealing with. Unlike the adjectives in the cretinous, href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=losing">losing, href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=brain-damaged">brain-damaged series, "evil" does not imply incompetence or bad design, but rather a set of goals or design criteria fatally incompatible with the speaker' s. This usage is more an aesthetic and engineering judgment than a moral one in the mainstream sense. "We thought about adding a href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Blue Glue">Blue Glue interface but decided it was too evil to deal with." "href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=TECO">TECO is neat, but it can be pretty evil if you' re prone to typos." Often pronounced with the first syllable lengthened, as /eeee' vil/. Compare href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=evil and rude">evil and rude. [href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Jargon File">Jargon File] (1994-12-12)

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