meaning of crche
1. CRC cyclic redundancy check creationism The false belief that large, innovative software designs can be completely specified in advance and then painlessly magicked out of the void by the normal efforts of a team of normally talented programmers. In fact, experience has shown repeatedly that good designs arise only from evolutionary, exploratory interaction between one or at most a small handful of exceptionally able designers and an active user population - and that the first try at a big new idea is always wrong. Unfortunately, because these truths dont fit the planning models beloved of management, they are generally ignored. [Jargon File] creeping elegance 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. creeping featurism
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