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Wrong Thing

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(idea) by Jargon (1.8 y) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Thu Jul 19 2001 at 18:49:59

write-only memory = W = wugga wugga

Wrong Thing n.

A design, action, or decision that is clearly incorrect or inappropriate. Often capitalized; always emphasized in speech as if capitalized. The opposite of the Right Thing; more generally, anything that is not the Right Thing. In cases where `the good is the enemy of the best', the merely good -- although good -- is nevertheless the Wrong Thing. "In C, the default is for module-level declarations to be visible everywhere, rather than just within the module. This is clearly the Wrong Thing."

--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.


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