Lame Programming Words
April 2nd, 2007 by proj
Spending too many years with chest thumping geeks has really given me a bad case of the grumpies when it comes to lame programming words (LPW). Here’s my curren top five LPW. If you have your own please do share:
- Meta
- Meta-this, meta-that, meta-shut-up-and-use-a-different-word.
- Refactor
- The new safe word for I’m gonna rewrite this pile.
- Context
- I almost don’t mind this one too much.. wait yeah it’s more tired than a pair of yuppie tie-die crocks.
- Blog
- ‘nuf said!
- Orthogonal
- Why do people always have to drag this one in? There are so many other ways to explain a problem or solution. They sure don’t make you sound as smart though!
What are your 5 LPWs?
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Ok, let me try…
Web 2.0: Next person that says this is going to puke out their own testes…
Enterprise: Code that has been overly and needlesly complicated so that corporations can feel better about shelling out stupid ammounts of money for it.
Paradigm: I don’t mind it so much when used in “context”, but the people that could use it don’t and those that shouldn’t do.
Agile: I don’t mind the methodology, but I’ve never met two teams that do can agree on what the hell it means — oh wait! Maybe that’s why it’s Agile! Ponderous…
I too will have to go for Orthogonal for my last word.