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On 31/07/2018 16:53, Gavin Wraith wrote:

In message <1034F4B2-8C0E-4373-836E-106FFF9AAE0F@gmail.com>
          Petite Abeille <petite.abeille@gmail.com> wrote:



On Jul 31, 2018, at 1:32 PM, Gavin Wraith <gavin@wra1th.plus.com> wrote:

"Duct tape" sounds like a Chelsea pronunciation of "Duck type", if you are into UK accents.


http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2008-09/msg00550.html

~10 years to the day :D


Good lord, that is a shock! Loss of short term memory. I really had
forgotten. Thank you for your patience.


You have all my sympathy!
During the years software developers have developed (pun intented!) quite a remarkable and peculiar sense of humor when giving name to something, like a new concept or technique.
Sometimes /it is/ somewhat difficult to grasp or remember for people coming from other scientific/engineering fields.
Although I've been programming since I was 13 (I'm 48 now) and I did it professionally for a part of my life, I still (albeit rarely) forget which is which in the SW dev zoo. 

Some funny expressions off the top of my head:

bug [1]
shell (as command line interpreter/window)
duck typing
monkey patching
yoda conditions (if you don't know Star Wars saga you're lost!)
easter egg
eat your own dog food
to grok (an idea/concept)
spaghetti code
heisenbug
rubber ducking
to boot (a system)
[1] It's so widespread now that probably it doesn't sound funny anymore! But it seems it's origin may be this: 
http://boussejra.com/2016/11/18/military-terms-in-computer-science.html

Some related (and fun) links:

https://www.businessinsider.com/20-hilarious-programming-jargon-phrases-you-should-know-when-talking-to-engineers-2012-7?IR=T

https://www.buzzfeed.com/lukelewis/28-things-only-developers-will-find-funny

I can't remember exactly, but I once read something on these lines:
"Computer science and programming are a very young disciplines, so developers are like kids in a kindergarten having fun naming things in funny ways" :-D
BTW, not exactly related to terminology, but I stumbled on it while googling for the other links and it's fun: 

http://pmstories.com/2009/07/08/funny-quotes-computers-programming/



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Gavin Wraith (gavin@wra1th.plus.com)
Home page: http://www.wra1th.plus.com/





Cheers!

-- Lorenzo