Abused Computing Terms
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
7 Comments, Comment or Ping
Anon
SOA
May 15th, 2009
fogus
Of course! How could I have forgotten? -m
May 15th, 2009
David R. MacIver
Hacker
May 15th, 2009
F_D
RE: “AJAX” – you mean like how elements are added to the DOM dynamically (with maybe some fun animation) but no actual new data are retrieved (or sent) and suddenly it’s AJAX?
RE: “The Cloud” – I’ve really enjoyed watching people fumble around for definitions on this one.
May 16th, 2009
hbagchi
Technical Architect – As if “architect” in itself is not “technical” enough!
May 16th, 2009
fogus
Hey that sound exactly like the AJAX that I’ve seen. -m
May 16th, 2009
Mike
Hi, nice posts there :-) thank’s for the interesting information
May 23rd, 2009
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