Keunwoo Lee : Lexicon 2
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^ Keunwoo Lee
lexicon of computing
C#
See Java, definition 1.
Eiffel
Language-centric religion which claims to gift its<br>worshippers with massive software engineering advantages,<br>despite the fact that its type system is completely unsound.<br>Eiffel followers have never heard the famous Fred Brooks<br>quote: "There is no silver bullet." They have listened, but<br>they have not heard.
enterprise<br>computing
Buzzword that is used by highly paid technology consultants<br>and other stooges of The Man to describe the technological<br>advantages of proprietary systems that produce demand for<br>expensive consultants, particularly when said systems have no<br>actual technological advantages over Free Software<br>systems.
Example: "There are no enterprise-quality tools that compile<br>languages other than Java to the Java<br>platform. By contrast, the Microsoft .NET(TM) strategy<br>provides enterprise-level language interoperability, in the<br>form of C#, Eiffel, and Visual<br>Basic compilers for the Microsoft Common Language<br>Runtime(TM)."
fractal<br>wrongness
The state of being wrong at every conceivable scale of<br>resolution. That is, from a distance, a fractally wrong<br>person's worldview is incorrect; and furthermore, if you zoom<br>in on any small part of that person's worldview, that part is<br>just as wrong as the whole worldview.
Debating with a person who is fractally wrong leads to<br>infinite regress, as every refutation you make of that<br>person's opinions will lead to a rejoinder, full of<br>half-truths, leaps of logic, and outright lies, that requires<br>just as much refutation to debunk as the first one. It is as<br>impossible to convince a fractally wrong person of anything as<br>it is to walk around the edge of the Mandelbrot set in finite<br>time.
If you ever get embroiled in a discussion with a fractally<br>wrong person on the Internet--in mailing lists, newsgroups, or<br>website forums--your best bet is to say your piece once<br>and ignore any replies, thus saving yourself<br>time.
Java
1. A single-inheritance, single-dispatch, mostly-pure<br>object-oriented language, with syntax resembling that of C++,<br>whose implementations are required to compile to object code<br>for a bytecode-based virtual machine. 2. The platform on<br>which Java applications are supposed to run.
solution
Synonym for "thingie". Most commonly used by technology<br>consultants who wish to convey their inflated sense of<br>self-importance in the world.
Example:
"We provide total solutions for enterprise<br>computing."
Translation:
"We have thingies that we want to sell you which<br>are actually no better than other thingies that you can get<br>for free."
Visual Basic
A language manifestly inferior to Python in almost every<br>respect.
Disclaimer: All definitions and opinions on this page are<br>solely due to Keunwoo Lee and do not represent the views of the<br>State of Washington, the University of Washington, or the<br>Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Nevertheless,<br>they are correct in every detail. Yes, every last one.
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Last modified: Sun Oct 21 15:50:00 PDT 2001