buglix /buhg'liks/ n.
[uncommon] Pejorative term referring to DEC's ULTRIX operating system in its earlier
severely buggy versions. Still used to describe ULTRIX,
but without nearly so much venom. Compare AIDX, HP-SUX, Nominal Semidestructor,
Telerat, sun-stools.
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bulletproof adj.
Used of an algorithm or implementation considered extremely
robust; lossage-resistant; capable
of correctly recovering from any imaginable exception condition
-- a rare and valued quality. Implies that the programmer has
thought of all possible errors, and added code to protect against each one. Thus, in some
cases, this can imply code that is too heavyweight, due to
excessive paranoia on the part of the programmer. Syn. armor-plated.