Singletoned wrote: > Rocco Moretti wrote: > > Steven D'Aprano wrote: > <snip> > > > That's the joys of a mostly self-taught programming knowledge: you miss > > > out on all the buzzwords. > > > > Being mostly self taught myself, I have a tendancy to use infrequently > > encountered terms in related but technically inappropriate contexts, > > confusing the better informed people I deal with. ;-) > > Indeed. I find I use even more buzzwords because I can just make up as > many as I want. This thread 'branch' (humm, is this an appropriate term for the last few quotes, going to Steven's?) is soothing in reminding us we are not alone. That there is a sort of distributed 'Alma Mater' of the 'Teach-It-Yourself School of Computing', producing a virtual FOAF group (Is FOAF, Friend Of A Friend or Flock Of A Feather?)
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