Ahhhrgghhhhhh! Naming Conventions That Suck
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We have a txt naming dev here at the coalface. So I am plagued with method names like AddChild2Parent and KeepUp2Date Jeez! it's one flaming character you're saving yourself! it drives me 2 distraction!
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If that's the worst problem you have I envy you.
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Your response forced me to look up the word 'ginormous' I was disappointed with the result as I was expecting something really different. Never heard this word before. Learn something new every day, even if it isn't ginormous or elephantine, at least it is something.
It's a "fusion" (since that's the in word) of gigantic and enormous, and therefore a calculated and appropriate use of poor English for this thread, innit?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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We have a txt naming dev here at the coalface. So I am plagued with method names like AddChild2Parent and KeepUp2Date Jeez! it's one flaming character you're saving yourself! it drives me 2 distraction!
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Ax him ta fix it 4 u
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Your response forced me to look up the word 'ginormous' I was disappointed with the result as I was expecting something really different. Never heard this word before. Learn something new every day, even if it isn't ginormous or elephantine, at least it is something.
I mean humongous, my bad! :( you know, so gigantic it's preposterous!!!
A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station.... _________________________________________________________ My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.
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Ax him ta fix it 4 u
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
exactly bro!! :laugh:
A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station.... _________________________________________________________ My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.
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We have a txt naming dev here at the coalface. So I am plagued with method names like AddChild2Parent and KeepUp2Date Jeez! it's one flaming character you're saving yourself! it drives me 2 distraction!
.\\axxx
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It's a "fusion" (since that's the in word) of gigantic and enormous, and therefore a calculated and appropriate use of poor English for this thread, innit?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
Thanks Mark for the clarification. One would think that, someone with my intelligence, would have realised this immediately. I misread it and my brain mispronouced it and I got excited about a new word. I do like fusion words though. Your clarification has cleared the whole issue. ...and made me feel a bit dumb Thanks
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I mean humongous, my bad! :( you know, so gigantic it's preposterous!!!
A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station.... _________________________________________________________ My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.
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Ax him ta fix it 4 u
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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We have a txt naming dev here at the coalface. So I am plagued with method names like AddChild2Parent and KeepUp2Date Jeez! it's one flaming character you're saving yourself! it drives me 2 distraction!
.\\axxx
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Mark Wallace wrote:
Ax him ta fix it 4 u
FTFY
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[^]
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Thanks Mark for the clarification. One would think that, someone with my intelligence, would have realised this immediately. I misread it and my brain mispronouced it and I got excited about a new word. I do like fusion words though. Your clarification has cleared the whole issue. ...and made me feel a bit dumb Thanks
Guys, there is a proper name for 'fusion words'. Ginormous is a portmanteau.
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We've got people who insist on prefixing everything with the first letter of the company we work for, "so that we know what is ours and what isn't". Namespaces are not enough it seems.
Take advantage of it, e.g. if your company name starts with "W", use a lot of anchors.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Guys, there is a proper name for 'fusion words'. Ginormous is a portmanteau.
<Turns up nose> Oh, you are so out of vogue... <Restores nose to its original shape>
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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<Turns up nose> Oh, you are so out of vogue... <Restores nose to its original shape>
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
I know. Grumpy old man I am.
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This is brilliant on many levels.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
It has to be, because when you chop a bit off one leg, it still wobbles, so you have to chop an bit off the other, but it'll still wobble, so you have to... etc.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Take advantage of it, e.g. if your company name starts with "W", use a lot of anchors.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
Unfortunately it doesn't, otherwise it's a genius idea. It's as good as the vandalised road sign in Tamworth that points to Ankerside. I think you know the rest. I'm trying to keep my ranting as anonymous as possible so unfortunately I can't tell you some of the odd and amusing things this naming convention has created, there are a few. Attempting to reason with this mentality is akin to trying to kick water up hill. I can get my revenge in other ways though. The same people who like to pointlessly prefix stuff are also allergic to anything development-related that is more recent than 1995. We've already integrated Dependency Injection, MVC, WCF, NHibernate, Moq and AOP into a couple of projects and these are the topics I use for my tech talk sessions so they are just going to have to sit there quietly for an hour at a time and listen to me talk about stuff they refuse to understand.
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Guys, there is a proper name for 'fusion words'. Ginormous is a portmanteau.
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SockPuppeteer wrote:
Ahhhrgghhhhhh
That sounds like a good variable name.
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It's a "fusion" (since that's the in word) of gigantic and enormous, and therefore a calculated and appropriate use of poor English for this thread, innit?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
Mark Wallace wrote:
poor English
My standard reference of what is valid English (The Oxford Compact English Dictionary [1996 hard back edition]) has an entry for "ginormous" but marks it as adj. Brit. slang. So it is OK for use in ordinary parlance but not acceptable for Scrabble (although, I understand that in recent years the 'accepatbility' criteria for Scrabble has been relaxed); but using 'OK' is not acceptable as it is a mangled abbreviation.
