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Discussion on: I plowed through coding slang Wikipedia articles so you don't have to - 25 terms you probably didn't know πŸπŸ’»

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GrahamTheDev • Edited

Well let me just say I feel attacked by your article.

Who knew there were so many terms that so accurately describe how I code and what my code looked like?

Think long and hard on this, I will. Hmmm. 😜

At least most of them have religious or magical links so…when my code magically works I can still feel like a coding God with confidence!

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Pascal Thormeier

Skipped the "fear" part of the path to the dark side, you have. And with anger, you started. But anger leads to hate, and hate leads to suffering. Hmmmm.

But yeah, same here. :D I think naming anti-patterns and learning of their existence makes you more aware of them.

Also, I'm surprised by how many terms in computer science have a religious or magical link. Kinda makes me think that most people, apparently even devs themselves, think of programming as something kind of mystical or mysterious.

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GrahamTheDev

Hehe that first bit gave me a good chuckle! πŸ˜‚