menuitis
:menuitis: /men`yoo-i:'tis/ n. Notional disease suffered by software with
an obsessively simple-minded menu interface and no escape. Hackers find
this intensely irritating and much prefer the flexibility of
command-line or language-style interfaces, especially those customizable
via macros or a special-purpose language in which one can encode useful
hacks. See user-obsequious
, drool-proof paper
, WIMP environment
for the rest of us
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