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• In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble. -- Alan Perli
• In the long run, every program becomes rococco, and then rubble. -- Alan Perli
• 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....
• ococo: adj. {Baroque} in the extreme. 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....
• Quote #593 Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
  -- Alan J. Perlis, Epigrams, 1970...
• Quote #156 > Syntactic sugar leads to cancer of the semicolon.
  > -- Guy L. Steele Actually it was Alan Perlis who said this originally. Source?...