English = E = ENQ

enhancement n.

Common marketroid-speak for a bug fix. This abuse of language is a popular and time-tested way to turn incompetence into increased revenue. A hacker being ironic would instead call the fix a feature -- or perhaps save some effort by declaring the bug itself to be a feature.

--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.

En*hance"ment (?), n.

The act of increasing, or state of being increased; augmentation; aggravation; as, the enhancement of value, price, enjoyments, crime.

 

© Webster 1913.

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