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Notes on WRONG THING
A design, action, or decision that is clearly incorrect or
inappropriate. Often capitalized; always emphasized in speech as if
capitalized. The opposite of the RIGHT THING; more generally,
anything that is not the Right Thing. In cases where `the good is the
enemy of the best', the merely good -- although good -- is
nevertheless the Wrong Thing. "In C, the default is for module-level
declarations to be visible everywhere, rather than just within the
module. This is clearly the Wrong Thing."
J3N Research Labs
Last Updated: 19th May 2007