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The Acronym School of Software Design

• edw519 17y ago
  The Acronym School of What NOT To Do: NIY - (Not Invented Here) - Only use your own libraries because nothing else can be trusted. CYA - (Cover Your Ass) - Instead of fixing it, just document that someone else wrote it. FUBAR - (Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition) - Whine about it instead of fixing it. RTFM - (Read the Fucking Manual) - Make it so complicated that you need a manual to use it. JIT - (Just in Time) - Hit your deadlines and clean up your mess later. SDLC - (Systems Development Life Cycle) - Only 6 more months of analysis before the first line of code is written. FTF - (First Things First) - Make it scale before you write it. WWTS - (Who Wrote This Shit?) - See FUBAR.
  • raganwald 17y ago
    We can test your assertion by counting the WTFs/min. generated by projects avoiding these acronyms.
  • RyanMcGreal 17y ago
    Aside: it's amusing that you euphemized the F in FUBAR but not the F in RTFM. :)