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....
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++ /C'-pluhs-pluhs/ n.
Designed by Bjarne Stroustrup
of AT& T Bell Labs as a successor to C. Now one of the
languages of choice, although many hackers still grumble that
it is the successor to either Algol 68 or Ada (depending on
generation), and a prime example of second-system effect....
