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. 2. Alternately, a mythical being that induces
otherwise rational programmers to perpetrate such crocks. See also
feeping creaturism, creeping featurism.
[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. 2. Alternately, a mythical being that induces
otherwise rational programmers to perpetrate such crocks. See also
feeping creaturism, creeping featurism.
Related:
- feature creature: [poss. fr. slang `creature feature' for a
horror movie] n.
1. One who loves to add features to designs or programs, perhaps at the expense of coherence, concision, or {taste}.... - 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.... - 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.... - feeping creature n.
[from feeping creaturism] An
unnecessary feature
a bit of chrome that, in the speaker's judgment, is the camel's nose for a whole horde of new features.... - feeping creature: [from {feeping creaturism}] n. An unnecessary
feature
a bit of {chrome} that, in the speaker's judgment, is the camel's nose for a whole horde of new features.... - feature n.
1. [common] A good property or behavior (as
of a program).
Whether it was intended or not is immaterial. 2.... - aste: [primarily MIT] n. 1. The quality in a program that tends
to be inversely proportional to the number of features, hacks, and
kluges programmed into it.
Also `tasty', `tasteful', `tastefulness'. "This feature comes in N tasty flavors.... - aste [primarily MIT] n.
1. The quality in a program that
tends to be inversely proportional to the number of features,
hacks, and kluges programmed into it.
Also `tasty', `tasteful', `tastefulness'. "This feature comes in N tasty flavors.... - 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 has become a misshapen creature of hacks....
