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The language of coding is almost all metaphorical, some food & food-adjacent terms offhand: - bit, byte - server - curry - salted hash - spaghetti co
by jmkb 4y ago
The language of coding is almost all metaphorical, some food & food-adjacent terms offhand:
- bit, byte
- server
- curry
- salted hash
- spaghetti code
- code smell
- syntactic sugar
- java
And the hardware world is full of fruit -- Adafruit, Apple, and many flavors of Pi.
- dmix 4y agoDRY the chilli, Beautiful Soup
- goldenkey 4y ago- 0XDEADBEEF - 0xCAFEBABE :-)
- carlmr 4y ago> - curry Fun fact, this was named after Haskell Curry. Haskell is also named after him. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_Curry https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_Curry
- knodi123 4y agoNamed after Haskell Brooks Curry. The Brook programming language is also named after him! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrookGPU https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrookGPU
- layer8 4y agoIt also works better as a verb than Schönfinkel or Frege: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Sch%C3%B6nfinkel#Work https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Sch%C3%B6nfinkel#Work Although now I'm tempted to use more fregging in my functional code.