chrome n.
[from automotive slang via wargaming] Showy features
added to attract users but contributing little or nothing to
the power of a system. "The 3D icons in Motif are just chrome,
but they certainly are pretty chrome!" Distinguished from
bells and whistles by the fact that the latter are usually
added to gratify developers' own desires for featurefulness.
Often used as a term of contempt.
[from automotive slang via wargaming] Showy features
added to attract users but contributing little or nothing to
the power of a system. "The 3D icons in Motif are just chrome,
but they certainly are pretty chrome!" Distinguished from
bells and whistles by the fact that the latter are usually
added to gratify developers' own desires for featurefulness.
Often used as a term of contempt.
Related:
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added to attract users but contributing little or nothing to
the power of a system.
"The 3D icons in Motif are just chrome, but they... - bells and whistles: [by analogy with the toyboxes on theater
organs] n.
Features added to a program or system to make it more... - bells and whistles n.
[common] Features added to a
program or system to make it more flavorful from a hacker's
point of view,
without necessarily adding to its utility for its ... - feeping creature n.
[from feeping creaturism] An
unnecessary feature;
a bit of chrome that, in the speaker's judgment... - feeping creature: [from {feeping creaturism}] n. An unnecessary
feature;
a bit of {chrome} that, in the speaker's judgment,... - syntactic sugar n.
[coined by Peter Landin] Features added
to a language or other formalism to make it `sweeter' for
humans,
features which do not affect the expressiveness of... - syntactic sugar: [coined by Peter Landin] n. Features added to a
language or other formalism to make it `sweeter' for humans,
features which do not affect the expressiveness of... - creeping featurism /kree'ping fee'chr-izm/ n.
[common] 1.
Describes a systematic tendency to load more chrome... - Sprung from cages on highway 9,
chrome wheels fuel injected and stepping out over the...
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[Unix] A particular species of wabbit
that can be written in one line of C (main()
{for(;
)fork();}) or shell ($0 & $0 &) on any Unix... - deep space n.
1. Describes the notional location of any
program that has gone off the trolley.
Esp. used of programs that just sit there silently... - gas
[as in `gas chamber'] 1. interj. A term of disgust
and hatred,
implying that gas should be dispensed in generous ... - mickey mouse program n.
North American equivalent of a
noddy (that is,
trivial) program. Doesn't necessarily have the... - retrocomputing /ret'-roh-k*m-pyoo'ting/ n.
Refers to
emulations of way-behind-the-state-of-the-art hardware or software,
or implementations of never-was-state-of-the-art; esp...
