meaning of banana label
1. banana label The labels often used on the sides of macrotape reels, so called because they are shaped roughly like blunt-ended bananas. This term, like macrotapes themselves, is still current but visibly headed for obsolescence. [Jargon File] banana problem From the story of the little girl who said "I know how to spell "banana", but I dont know when to stop". Not knowing where or when to bring a production to a close compare fencepost error. One may say "there is a banana problem" of an algorithm with poorly defined or incorrect termination conditions, or in discussing the evolution of a design that may be succumbing to featuritis see also creeping elegance, creeping featuritis. See item 176 under HAKMEM, which describes a banana problem in a Dissociated Press implementation. Also, see one-banana problem for a superficially similar but unrelated usage.
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