fascist adj.
1. [common] Said of a computer system with excessive or
annoying security barriers, usage limits, or access policies. The
implication is that said policies are preventing hackers from
getting interesting work done. The variant `fascistic' seems to
have been preferred at MIT, poss. by analogy with `touristic'
(see tourist or under the influence
of German/Yiddish `faschistisch'). 2. In the design of languages
and other software tools, `the fascist alternative' is the most
restrictive and structured way of capturing a particular
function; the implication is that this may be desirable in order
to simplify the implementation or provide tighter error checking.
Compare bondage-and-discipline
language, although that term is global rather than
local.