One of many hackish terms defined in the
JargonFile.
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KevinKinnell - 10 Apr 2000
In her book on
Applying Use Cases Geri Schneider calls this
Feeping Creaturism.
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RalfHandl - 26 Apr 2000
Yeah, that's one of the typical hackish variants. We used to talk about doing a "featurectomy" on code (like the old IBM REXX 'terps) after it'd been revved and had new bells, whistles, bangles & sparklies. -- kk 27 apr