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.

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Last updated: 2005-04-05

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MONSTR ♦ Montage ♦ Monte Carlo ♦ monty ♦ MOO ♦ Moof ♦ Moore bound ♦ Moore graph

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