hobbyware 

Software developed by non-professionals who insist it is great yet it takes so much tinkering to just get it running, you wish you never downloaded it in the first place.

If I have to edit one more "conf" file to get this piece of junk hobbyware to just start up, I will scream!

hobbyware by Sir Nuke November 12, 2009

hoboware

Hoboware is a general programming term for bad pieces of source code. The defining characteristic of hoboware, as opposed to bad code in general, is that it is an implementation of a problem for which an efficient algorithm is known. Because the correct implementations are difficult to track down, the code is needlessly created over and over, either by many different parties or by the same author, usually at the cost of efficiency and readability. The prefix "hobo" is probably an analogy between the code's elusiveness and the itinerant, carefree nature of the stereotypical American hobo or gypsy1.

Windows 95 is a good example of hoboware.

hoboware by Holden karau April 20, 2007

Hoboware

That source code that should be used over and over in different programs, but ends up getting rewritten at great expense of time, because (paradoxically) computer hackers are very lazy.

void sort_array(int * array, int length)
(... passage of time ...)
void sort_array(int * array, int length)
(... passage of time ...)
void sort_array(int * array, int length)

Fuck! I'm writing hoboware!

Hoboware by Mitchell Bogues April 17, 2007