In the software world, we don’t have as many complicated terms as there are in biology, but we aren’t completely immune to giving complex-sounding names to what should be simple concepts – some of us even enjoy getting pedantic about them. Here are some of my favorites, with examples in JavaScript…
To this day I still remember a quote I read in a computer magazine when I was 12. In an article comparing the programming languages of the time, a C developer described the Pascal programming language as ‘a hen that sits on your head watching every move you make’…