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