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• 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)....
• ysape: /sys'ayp/ n. A rather derogatory term for a computer operato
  a play on {sysop} common at sites that use the banana hierarchy of problem complexity (see {one-banana problem})....
• 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....
• one-banana problem: n. At mainframe shops, where the computers have operators for routine administrivia
  he programmers and hardware people tend to look down on the operators and claim that a trained monkey could do their job....
• HAKMEM /hak'mem/ n. MIT AI Memo 239 (February 1972).
  A legendary collection of neat mathematical and programming hacks contributed by many people at MIT and elsewhere....
• ysape /sys'ayp/ n. A rather derogatory term for a computer operato
  a play on sysop common at sites that use the banana hierarchy of problem complexity (see one-banana problem)....
• Infinite-Monkey Theorem: n. "If you put an {infinite} number of monkeys at typewriters, eventually one will bash out the script for Hamlet.
  (One may also hypothesize a small number of monkeys and a very long period of time....
• one-banana problem n. At mainframe shops, where the computers have operators for routine administrivia
  he programmers and hardware people tend to look down on the operators and claim that a trained monkey could do their job....
• 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....