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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....
• 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....
• 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})....
• KISS Principle: /kis' prin'si-pl/ n. "Keep It Simple, Stupid".
  A maxim often invoked when discussing design to fend off {creeping featurism} and control development complexity....
• critical mass: n. In physics, the minimum amount of fissionable material required to sustain a chain reaction.
  Of a software product, describes a condition of the software such that fixing one bug introduces one plus {epsilon} bugs....
• oftware bloat: n. The results of {second-system effect} or {creeping featuritis}.
  Commonly cited examples include `ls(1)', {X}, {BSD}, {Missed'em-five}, and {OS/2}....