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bug-compatible
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bug-compatible /adj./ Said of a design or revision that has
been badly compromised by a requirement to be compatible with
fossils or misfeatures in other programs or (esp.)
previous releases of itself. "MS-DOS 2.0 used \ as a path
separator to be bug-compatible with some cretin's choice of / as an
option character in 1.0."
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