: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. This term isn't really well defined, but it sounds so neat
that most hackers have said or heard it. It is probably reinforced
by an image of terminals prowling about in the dark making their
customary noises.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
spoonerism for {creeping featurism}, meant to imply that the
system or program in question has become a misshapen creature of
hacks. This term isn't really well defined, but it sounds so neat
that most hackers have said or heard it. It is probably reinforced
by an image of terminals prowling about in the dark making their
customary noises.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Related:
- 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.... - 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.... - 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}.... - 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.... - creeping featuritis: /kree'ping fee'-chr-i:`t*s/ n.
Variant of {creeping featurism}, with its own spoonerizatio... - 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}.... - 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.... - cycle crunch: n. A situation wherein the number of people trying
to use a computer simultaneously has reached the point where no one
can get enough cycles because they are spread too thin and the
system has probably begun to {thrash}.
This scenario is an inevitable result of Parkinson's Law applied to timesharing....
