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From Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) [jargon]:
creationism
n.
The (false) belief that large, innovative software designs can be
completely specified in advance and then painlessly magicked out of
the void by the normal efforts of a team of normally talented
programmers. In fact, experience has shown repeatedly that good
designs arise only from evolutionary, exploratory interaction between
one (or at most a small handful of) exceptionally able designer(s) and
an active user population -- and that the first try at a big new idea
is always wrong. Unfortunately, because these truths don't fit the
planning models beloved of management, they are generally ignored.
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