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critical mass
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n. In physics, the minimum amount of fissionable material required to
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sustain a chain reaction. Of a software product, describes a condition of
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the software such that fixing one bug introduces one plus epsilon bugs.
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(This malady has many causes: creeping featurism , ports to too many
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disparate environments, poor initial design, etc.) When software achieves
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critical mass, it can never be fixed; it can only be discarded and
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rewritten.
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