On 21/02/2014, at 10:20 AM, Alan Silverstein wrote: > >> Interesting anecdote about bad terminology, back in the day I was >> given the task of integrating our software with some offshore >> developed code. It didn't sound difficult but once I opened their >> code I found out that for some reason, they used the word 'bucket' for >> every data structure. (language barrier?). pointers were buckets. >> arrays were buckets. linked lists were buckets. a linked list >> holding pointers would be described in the comments as a 'bucket of >> buckets'. Kind of comical in retrospect, not so much at the time. In >> any case, terminology is key :) > > SIGH! Sounds like "bucket" = "thing" and they were more sloppy than > unfamiliar with English.
Oh, I've seen IBM-360 Assembler for a major program which did survey analysis off multi-punched cards, in which every identifier was a girls name .. I suppose that's one way to dream up names.. provided you don't tell your GF you spent all day pulling bugs out of Judy, Pam and Sarah .. -- john skaller [email protected] http://felix-lang.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Managing the Performance of Cloud-Based Applications Take advantage of what the Cloud has to offer - Avoid Common Pitfalls. Read the Whitepaper. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=121054471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Judy-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/judy-devel
