Featurectomy

2 definitions found

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  featurectomy /fee`ch*r-ek't*-mee/ n. The act of removing a feature from
     a program. Featurectomies come in two flavors, the `righteous' and the
     `reluctant'. Righteous featurectomies are performed because the remover
     believes the program would be more elegant without the feature, or there
     is already an equivalent and better way to achieve the same end. (Doing
     so is not quite the same thing as removing a {misfeature}.) Reluctant


     featurectomies are performed to satisfy some external constraint such as
     code size or execution speed.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  featurectomy
       
          /fee"ch*r-ek"t*-mee/ The act of removing a {feature} from a
          program.  Featurectomies come in two flavours, the "righteous"
          and the "reluctant".  Righteous featurectomies are performed
          because the remover believes the program would be more elegant
          without the feature, or there is already an equivalent and
          better way to achieve the same end.  (Doing so is not quite
          the same thing as removing a {misfeature}.)  Reluctant
          featurectomies are performed to satisfy some external
          constraint such as code size or execution speed.
       
          [{Jargon File}]
       
          (1994-10-20)