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banana label n.

The labels often used on the sides of [1036]macrotape reels, so called

because they are shaped roughly like blunt-ended bananas. This term,

like macrotapes themselves, is still current but visibly headed for

obsolescence.

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banana problem n.

[from the story of the little girl who said "I know how to spell

`banana', but I don't know when to stop"]. Not knowing where or when

to bring a production to a close (compare [1040]fencepost error). One

may say `there is a banana problem' of an algorithm with poorly

defined or incorrect termination conditions, or in discussing the

evolution of a design that may be succumbing to featuritis (see also

[1041]creeping elegance, [1042]creeping featuritis). See item 176

under [1043]HAKMEM, which describes a banana problem in a

[1044]Dissociated Press implementation. Also, see [1045]one-banana

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