feeping creaturism

feeping creaturism

/fee'ping kree"ch*r-izm/ A deliberate spoonerism for creeping featurism, meant to imply that the system or program inquestion has become a misshapen creature of hacks. This termisn"t really well defined, but it sounds so neat that mosthackers have said or heard it. It is probably reinforced byan image of terminals prowling about in the dark making theircustomary noises.