Featurectomy
/fee'ch*r-ek't*-mee/
n. The act of removing a
feature from a program. Featurectomies come in two flavors, the
'righteous' and the 'reluctant'. Righteous featurectomies are
performed because the remover believes the program would be more
elegant without the feature, or there is already an equivalent and
better way to achieve the same end. (This is not quite the same
thing as removing a misfeature.) Reluctant featurectomies are
performed to satisfy some external constraint such as code size or
execution speed.
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