creeping elegance
:creeping elegance: n. Describes a tendency for parts of a design to
become elegant
past the point of diminishing return, 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}
}. See also creeping featurism
, second-system effect
, tense
Jargon File Version 4.3.1, 29 JUN 2001 =
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