<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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(2005-04-05)
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