rococo

adj. Terminally baroque. Used to imply that a program has become so
encrusted with the software equivalent of gold leaf and curlicues that they
have completely swamped the underlying design. Called after the later and
more extreme forms of Baroque architecture and decoration prevalent during
the mid-1700s in Europe. Alan Perlis said: Every program eventually becomes
rococo, and then rubble. Compare critical mass.

