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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>rococo</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../R.html" title="R"/><link rel="previous" href="robust.html" title="robust"/><link rel="next" href="rogue.html" title="rogue"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">rococo</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="robust.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">R</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="rogue.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="rococo"/><dt xmlns="" id="rococo"><b>rococo</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Terminally <a href="../B/baroque.html"><i class="glossterm">baroque</i></a>. Used to imply that a
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program has become so encrusted with the software equivalent of gold leaf
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and curlicues that they have completely swamped the underlying design.
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Called after the later and more extreme forms of Baroque architecture and
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decoration prevalent during the mid-1700s in Europe. Alan Perlis said:
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“<span class="quote">Every program eventually becomes rococo, and then rubble.</span>”
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