like nailing jelly to a tree
<jargon, humour> Used to describe a task thought to be impossible,
especially one in which the difficulty arises from poor specification or
inherent slipperiness in the problem domain. "Trying to display the "prettiest"
arrangement of nodes and arcs that diagrams a given graph is like nailing jelly
to a tree, because nobody's sure what "prettiest" means algorithmically."
[Jargon File]
(1997-12-23)
Nearby terms:
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol « light-weight process
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