monty
<programming, abuse> /mon'tee/ Any program with a ludicrously complex
user interface that performs a trivial task. An example would be a menu-driven,
button clicking, pulldown, pop-up windows program for listing directories. The
original monty was a weather reporting program, Monty the Amazing Weather Man,
written at the USGS. Monty had a widget-packed X-window interface with over 200
buttons; and all it actually *did* was FTP files off the network.
[Jargon File]
(2005-04-05)
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