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• C++ is the best example of second-system effect since OS/360.
• oftware bloat n. The results of second-system effect or creeping featuritis.
  Commonly cited examples include ls(1), X, BSD, Missed'em-five...
• God help the troubadour who tries to be a star. The more that you try to find success, the more that you will fail.
  -- Phil Ochs, on the Second System Effec...
• un-stools n. Unflattering hackerism for SunTools, a pre-X windowing environment notorious in its day for size, slowness, and misfeatures.
  X, however, is larger and (some claim) slower; see second-system effect....
• oftware bloat: n. The results of {second-system effect} or {creeping featuritis}.
  Commonly cited examples include `ls(1)', {X}, {BSD}, {Missed'em-five}, and {OS/2}....
• elephantine adj. Used of programs or systems that are both conspicuous hogs (owing perhaps to poor design founded on brute force and ignorance) and exceedingly hairy monstrosity.
  See also second-system effect and baroque....
• un-stools: n. Unflattering hackerism for SunTools, a pre-X windowing environment notorious in its day for size, slowness, and misfeatures.
  {X}, however, is larger and slower; see {second-system effect}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• econd-system effect n. (sometimes, more euphoniously
  `second-system syndrome') When one is designing the successor to a relatively small, elegant, and successful system, there is a tendency to become grandiose in one's success and design an elephantine feature-laden monstrosity....
• econd-system effect: n. (sometimes, more euphoniously
  `second-system syndrome') When one is designing the successor to a relatively small, elegant, and successful system, there is a tendency to become grandiose in one's success and design an {elephantine} feature-laden monstrosity....