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A common spoonerism of Feature Creep made popular by internet forums. Phenomenon whereby a software package gains many more features than originally intended. Generally the product of optimistic programmers or overambitious managers, feature creep is generally considered a bad thing. Feature creep makes a program that would have done one thing well into a program that does ten things, all poorly. Microsoft Outlook suffers badly from feature creep.
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