After reading David MacIver’s recent post on the term functional I thought it would be interesting to compile a list of computing terms and ideas that are often abused:

• Functional
• DSL
• Combinator
• Closure
• Monad (on the rise)
• Lisp has no syntax
• Immutability (more so in practice)
• “… Considered Harmful”
• Hacker
• Enterprise
• The Cloud
• AJAX
• REST
• MVC (more so in practice)
• HTML programming
• SOA
• Web 2.0
• Real-world

More to come…

-m