error-ridden code
noun phraseUK /ˈerə ˈrɪdən kəʊd/
US /ˈerər ˈrɪdən koʊd/
Code that has lots of mistakes in it.
The teacher said my program was error-ridden code because it crashed every time.
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2. A piece of software that fails often and is hard to trust.
After the update, the app became error-ridden code that nobody wanted to use.
3. Writing in a computer language that contains many syntax or logic mistakes.
His first attempt at Python was error-ridden code full of missing brackets.
4. A program that needs a lot of fixing before it can work properly.
The team spent all week cleaning up the error-ridden code.