evil adj.
As used by hackers, 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/losing/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 esthetic and engineering judgment than a moral
one in the mainstream sense. "We thought about adding a Blue Glue interface but decided it
was too evil to deal with." "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 evil and
rude.