baroque adj.
[common] Feature-encrusted; complex;
gaudy; verging on excessive. Said of hardware or (esp.) software
designs, this has many of the connotations of elephantine or
monstrosity but is less extreme and not pejorative in itself.
"Metafont even has features to introduce random variations to its
letterform output. Now that is baroque!" See also
rococo.
[common] Feature-encrusted; complex;
gaudy; verging on excessive. Said of hardware or (esp.) software
designs, this has many of the connotations of elephantine or
monstrosity but is less extreme and not pejorative in itself.
"Metafont even has features to introduce random variations to its
letterform output. Now that is baroque!" See also
rococo.
Related:
- baroque: adj. Feature-encrusted; complex; gaudy; verging on
excessive.
Said of hardware or (esp.) software designs, this has... - heavyweight adj.
[common] High-overhead; baroque;
code-intensive; featureful, but costly. Esp. used... - elephantine: adj. Used of programs or systems that are both
conspicuous {hog}s (owing perhaps to poor design founded on
{brute force and ignorance}) and exceedingly {hairy} in source
form.
An elephantine program may be functional and even friendly... - rococo: adj. {Baroque} in the extreme. Used to imply that a
program has become so encrusted with the software equivalent of
gold leaf and curlicues that they have completely swamped the
underlying design.
Called after the later and more extreme forms of... - rococo adj.
Terminally baroque. Used to imply that a
program has become so encrusted with the software equivalent of
gold leaf and curlicues that they have completely swamped the
underlying design.
Called after the later and more extreme forms of... - heavyweight: adj. High-overhead; {baroque}; code-intensive;
featureful, but costly. Esp. used of communication... - monstrosity
1. n. A ridiculously elephantine program
or system,
esp. one that is buggy or only marginally functional... - monstrosity: 1. n. A ridiculously {elephantine} program or
system,
esp. one that is buggy or only marginally functional... - 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...
