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• ococo 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 Baroque architecture and decoration prevalent during the mid-1700s in Europe....
• baroque: adj. 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....
• In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble. -- Alan Perli
• baroque adj. [common] Feature-encrusted; complex
  gaudy; verging on excessive. Said of hardware or (esp....
• Quote #31 In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble. -- Alan Perli
• 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, but (as in the old joke about being in bed with an elephant) it's tough to have around all the same (and, like a pachyderm, difficult to maintain)....
• In the long run, every program becomes rococco, and then rubble. -- Alan Perli