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• creeping featurism /kree'ping fee'chr-izm/ n. [common] 1.
  Describes a systematic tendency to load more chrome and features onto systems at the expense of whatever elegance they may have possessed when originally designed....
• feature n. 1. [common] A good property or behavior (as of a program).
  Whether it was intended or not is immaterial. 2....
• creeping featurism: /kree'ping fee'chr-izm/ n. 1. Describes a systematic tendency to load more {chrome} and {feature}s onto systems at the expense of whatever elegance they may have possessed when originally designed.
  See also {feeping creaturism}. "You know, the main problem with {BSD} UNIX has always been creeping featurism....
• feature creature n. [poss. fr. slang `creature feature' for a horror movie] 1.
  One who loves to add features to designs or programs, perhaps at the expense of coherence, concision, or taste....
• creep v. To advance, grow, or multiply inexorably.
  In hackish usage this verb has overtones of menace and silliness, evoking the creeping horrors of low-budget monster movies....
• case and paste n. [from `cut and paste'] 1. The addition of a new feature to an existing system by selecting the code from an existing feature and pasting it in with minor changes.
  Common in telephony circles because most operations in a telephone switch are selected using case statements....
• case and paste: [from `cut and paste'] n. 1. The addition of a new {feature} to an existing system by selecting the code from an existing feature and pasting it in with minor changes.
  Common in telephony circles because most operations in a telephone switch are selected using `case' statements....
• miswart /mis-wort/ n. [from wart by analogy with misbug] A feature that superficially appears to be a wart but has been determined to be the Right Thing.
  For example, in some versions of the EMACS text editor, the `transpose characters' command exchanges the character under the cursor with the one before it on the screen, except when the cursor is at the end of a line, in which case the two characters before the cursor are exchanged....
• undocumented feature n. See feature.