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• 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. 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....
• 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....
• 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....
• 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 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....
• 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....
• econd-system effect: n. (sometimes, more euphoniously
  `second-system syndrome') When one is designing the successor to a relatively small, elegant, and successful system, there is a tendency to become grandiose in one's success and design an {elephantine} feature-laden monstrosity....
• creeping elegance: n. Describes a tendency for parts of a design to become {elegant} past the point of diminishing retu
  something which often happens at the expense of the less interesting parts of the design, the schedule, and other things deemed important in the {Real World}....