Words not of an everyday sort
Programming languages are often associated with using long-winded words, that sound more like rocket science, rather than plain English. And this is one of the reasons programmers are paid top dollar, they can decipher what appears to be gibberish to everyone else... they can crack the code.
So what I'm going to TRY to do here is make a list of the most convoluted programming terms, and also show their equivalent in plain old, ordinary English.
- concatenate [ combine ]
- exception [ error ]
- function [ action ]
- instantiate [ creation ]
- serialize [ format ]
- synchronize [ matching ]
- transient [ temporary ]
- volatile [ fragile ]
- More?
If you'd like to add to this list, or provide a BETTER suited word, feel free to chime in. This should be a pretty fun experiment.
Jul 10, 2007
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