tick-list features: [Acorn Computers] n. Features in software or hardware that customers insist on but never use (calculators in desktop TSRs and that sort of thing)

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• tick-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'...
• 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...
• 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, ...
• 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.g...
• baroque: adj. Feature-encrusted; complex; gaudy; verging on excessive
  Said of hardware or (esp.) software designs, this has...
• smart 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...
• 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...
• 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...