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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>creationism</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="../C.html" title="C"/><link rel="previous" href="CRC-handbook.html" title="CRC handbook"/><link rel="next" href="creep.html" title="creep"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">creationism</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="CRC-handbook.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">C</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="creep.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="creationism"/><dt xmlns="" id="creationism"><b>creationism</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> The (false) belief that large, innovative software designs can be
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completely specified in advance and then painlessly magicked out of the
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void by the normal efforts of a team of normally talented programmers. In
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fact, experience has shown repeatedly that good designs arise only from
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evolutionary, exploratory interaction between one (or at most a small
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handful of) exceptionally able designer(s) and an active user population
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— and that the first try at a big new idea is always wrong.
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Unfortunately, because these truths don't fit the planning models beloved
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of <a href="../M/management.html"><i class="glossterm">management</i></a>, they are generally ignored.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="CRC-handbook.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../C.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="creep.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">CRC handbook </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> creep</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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