gang bang: n. The use of large numbers of loosely coupled
programmers in an attempt to wedge a great many features into a
product in a short time. Though there have been memorable gang
bangs (e.g., that over-the-weekend assembler port mentioned in
Steven Levy's "Hackers"), most are perpetrated by large companies
trying to meet deadlines; the inevitable result is enormous buggy
masses of code entirely lacking in orthogonality. When
market-driven managers make a list of all the features the
competition has and assign one programmer to implement each, the
probability of maintaining a coherent (or even functional) design
goes infinitesimal. See also firefighting, Mongolian Hordes
technique, Conway's Law.
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