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• elephantine adj. Used of programs or systems that are both conspicuous hogs (owing perhaps to poor design founded on brute force and ignorance) and exceedingly hairy monstrosity.
  See also second-system effect and baroque....
• monstrosity: 1. n. A ridiculously {elephantine} program or system, esp.
  one that is buggy or only marginally functional. 2....
• baroque: adj. Feature-encrusted; complex; gaudy; verging on excessive.
  Said of hardware or (esp.) software designs, this has many of the connotations of {elephantine} or {monstrosity} but is less extreme and not pejorative in itself....
• monstrosity 1. n. A ridiculously elephantine program or system, esp.
  one that is buggy or only marginally functional. 2....
• 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....
• brute force adj. Describes a primitive programming style
  one in which the programmer relies on the computer's processing power instead of using his or her own intelligence to simplify the problem, often ignoring problems of scale and applying naive methods suited to small problems directly to large ones....
• heavyweight: adj. High-overhead; {baroque}; code-intensive
  featureful, but costly. Esp. used of communication protocols, language designs, and any sort of implementation in which maximum generality and/or ease of implementation has been pushed at the expense of mundane considerations such as speed, memory utilization, and startup time....
• 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....
• baroque adj. [common] Feature-encrusted; complex
  gaudy; verging on excessive. Said of hardware or (esp....