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hysterical reasons
(foldoc) | hysterical reasons
(Or "hysterical raisins") A variant on the stock phrase "for
historical reasons", indicating specifically that something
must be done in some stupid way for backward compatibility,
and moreover that the feature it must be compatible with was
the result of a bad design in the first place. "All IBM PC
video adapters have to support MDA text mode for hysterical
reasons." Compare bug-for-bug compatible.
[Jargon File]
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hysterical reasons
(jargon) | hysterical reasons
n.
(also hysterical raisins) A variant on the stock phrase “for historical
reasons”, indicating specifically that something must be done in some
stupid way for backwards compatibility, and moreover that the feature it
must be compatible with was the result of a bad design in the first place.
“All IBM PC video adapters have to support MDA text mode for hysterical
reasons.” Compare bug-for-bug compatible.
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