meaning of fritterware
1. fritterware An excess of capability that serves no productive end. The canonical example is font-diddling software on the Mac see macdink; the term describes anything that eats huge amounts of time for quite marginal gains in function but seduces people into using it anyway. See also window shopping. [Jargon File] FRL Frame Representation Language. MIT. ["The FRL Manual", R. Roberts et al, AI Memo 409, MIT AI Lab, 1977].
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