Phrases in Programming That Irk Me
Irksome Lingo It is common amongst the non-executive types to deride so-called ’execu-speak’. That is, words and phrases which sound trite, stupid or (sometimes) like disingenuous euphemisms. While there can sometimes be some justification for such criticism, quite a lot of that vocabulary is simply, in essence, the jargon of that field. Software developers are actually at least as equally guilty of overusing sayings, re-using lexicon from somewhere else such that it makes little sense in the original context,1 and just plain using words and phrases that irritate me....