creeping featuritis /kree'ping fee'-chr-i:`t*s/ n.
Variant of creeping featurism, with its own spoonerization:
`feeping creaturitis'. Some people like to reserve this form for
the disease as it actually manifests in software or hardware, as
opposed to the lurking general tendency in designers' minds.
(After all, -ism means `condition' or `pursuit of', whereas
-itis usually means `inflammation of'.)
Variant of creeping featurism, with its own spoonerization:
`feeping creaturitis'. Some people like to reserve this form for
the disease as it actually manifests in software or hardware, as
opposed to the lurking general tendency in designers' minds.
(After all, -ism means `condition' or `pursuit of', whereas
-itis usually means `inflammation of'.)
Related:
- creeping featuritis /kree'ping fee'-chr-i:`t*s/ n.
Variant of creeping featurism,
with its own spoonerization: `feeping creaturitis'... - creeping featurism /kree'ping fee'chr-izm/ n.
[common] 1.
Describes a systematic tendency to load more chrome... - 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... - feeping creaturism /fee'ping kree`ch*r-izm/ n.
A
deliberate spoonerism for creeping featurism,
meant to imply that the system or program in question... - feeping creaturism: /fee'ping kree`ch*r-izm/ n. A deliberate
spoonerism for {creeping featurism},
meant to imply that the system or program in question... - software bloat n.
The results of second-system effect
or creeping featuritis.
Commonly cited examples include ls(1), X, BSD, Missed'em... - boot v.,n.
[techspeak; from `by one's bootstraps'] To
load and initialize the operating system on a machine.
This usage is no longer jargon (having passed into... - creeping elegance: n. Describes a tendency for parts of a design
to become {elegant} past the point of diminishing return,
something which often happens at the expense of the... - software bloat: n. The results of {second-system effect} or
{creeping featuritis}.
Commonly cited examples include `ls(1)', {X}, {BSD}...
