A derogatory term for program
code that is ridiculously verbose and difficult to read and edit, characterized by grossly abusing the myriad of features available for a given language when a much simpler and more elegant solution is obvious. Derived from the horrible code that the employees of
large, bureaucratic companies write for the sake of busy
work and/or tormenting coworkers.
John
spent eight hours writing 471 lines of Java enterprise code, importing thirteen libraries and carefully crafting three factory classes to accomplish a task that could just as easily be
done with
ten lines of Python. A hard day's pay earned.