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• ick-list features n. [Acorn Computers] Features in software or hardware that customers insist on but never use (calculators in desktop TSRs and that sort of thing).
  The American equivalent would be `checklist features', but this jargon sense of the phrase has not been reported....
• wish list: n. A list of desired features or bug fixes that probably won't get done for a long time
  usually because the person responsible for the code is too busy or can't think of a clean way to do it....
• Ada:: n. A {{Pascal}}-descended language that has been made mandatory for Department of Defense software projects by the Pentagon.
  Hackers are nearly unanimous in observing that, technically, it is precisely what one might expect given that kind of endorsement by fia...
• gang bang: n. The use of large numbers of loosely coupled programmers in an attempt to wedge a great many features into a product in a short time.
  Though there have been memorable gang bangs (e....
• 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....
• mart terminal: n. 1. A terminal that has enough computing capability to render graphics or to offload some kind of front-end processing from the computer it talks to.
  The development of workstations and personal computers has made this term and the product it describes semi-obsolescent, but one may still hear variants of the phrase `act like a smart terminal' used to describe the behavior of workstations or PCs with respect to programs that execute almost entirely out of a remote {server}'s storage, using said devices as displays....
• My software never has bugs. It just develops random features.
• feature shock: [from Alvin Toffler's book title "Future Shock"] n.
  A user's (or programmer's!) confusion when confronted with a package that has too many features and poor introductory material....
• If you want X, you know where to find it.: There is a legend that Dennis Ritchie
  inventor of {C}, once responded to demands for features resembling those of what at the time was a much more popular language by observing "If you want PL/I, you know where to find it....