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• 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....
• 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....
• banana problem: n. [from the story of the little girl who said "I know how to spell `banana', but I don't know when to stop"].
  Not knowing where or when to bring a production to a close (compare {fencepost error})....
• banana problem n. [from the story of the little girl who said "I know how to spell `banana', but I don't know when to stop"].
  Not knowing where or when to bring a production to a close (compare fencepost error)....
• 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....
• 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....
• C++ offers even more flexible control over the visibility of member objects and member functions.
  Specifically, members may be placed in the public, private, or protected parts of a class....
• MFTL /M-F-T-L/ [abbreviation: `My Favorite Toy Language'] 1.
  adj. Describes a talk on a programming language design that is heavy on the syntax (with lots of BNF), sometimes even talks about semantics (e....