Vocabulary can delude and manipulate as well. Idempotent serves to delude more than it informs. In this case idempotent is taking an trivial and obvious concept

Vocabulary can delude and manipulate as well. Idempotent serves to delude more than it informs. In this case idempotent is taking an trivial and obvious concept and makes it seem more snobbish. Why write a whole article about an obvious and trivial concept? Perhaps the word itself is making it more complex then it is. The software industry is littered with these words. Design patterns especially. Rob Pike once referred to it as infatuation with nomenclature.