creeping elegance

noun

Definitions

  1. The tendency of programmers to disproportionately emphasize elegance in software at the…

    The tendency of programmers to disproportionately emphasize elegance in software at the expense of other requirements such as functionality, shipping schedule, and usability.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for creeping elegance. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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