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.
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