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Functionality; All The Functionality; And Nothing But The Functionality. -- Beck's Motto
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Functionality; All the Functionality; And nothing but the Functionality.
-- Beck's Motto
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Fine's Corollary: Functionality breeds Contempt.
Adding features does not necessarily increase functionality -- it just makes the manuals thicker.
bloatware n. [common] Software that provides minimal functionality while requiring a disproportionate amount of diskspace and memory.
Especially used for application and OS upgrades. This term is very common in the Windows/NT world....
hareware /sheir'weir/ n. A kind of freeware (sense 1) for which the author requests some payme
usually in the accompanying documentation files or in an announcement made by the software itself....
hareware: /sheir'weir/ n. {Freeware} (sense 1) for which the author requests some payment, usually in the accompanying documentation files or in an announcement made by the software itself.
Such payment may or may not buy additional support or functionality....
fossil n. 1. In software, a misfeature that becomes understandable only in historical context, as a remnant of times past retained so as not to break compatibility.
Example: the retention of octal as default base for string escapes in C, in spite of the better match of hexadecimal to ASCII and modern byte-addressable architectures....
fossil: n. 1. In software, a misfeature that becomes understandable only in historical context, as a remnant of times past retained so as not to break compatibility.
Example: the retention of octal as default base for string escapes in {C}, in spite of the better match of hexadecimal to ASCII and modern byte-addressable architectures....