8 lines
2.0 KiB
HTML
8 lines
2.0 KiB
HTML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
|
||
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Saturday-night special</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../S.html" title="S"/><link rel="previous" href="sanity-check.html" title="sanity check"/><link rel="next" href="say.html" title="say"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Saturday-night special</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="sanity-check.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">S</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="say.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Saturday-night-special"/><dt xmlns="" id="Saturday-night-special"><b>Saturday-night special</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from police slang for a cheap handgun] A
|
||
<a href="../Q/quick-and-dirty.html"><i class="glossterm">quick-and-dirty</i></a> program or feature kluged together
|
||
during off hours, under a deadline, and in response to pressure from a
|
||
<a href="salescritter.html"><i class="glossterm">salescritter</i></a>. Such hacks are dangerously
|
||
unreliable, but all too often sneak into a production release after
|
||
insufficient review.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="sanity-check.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="say.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">sanity check </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> say</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|