You'd think the etymology had anything to do with another cute term - "code rot", but no. No science of origin here. Programming culture (today?) is highly eg

You'd think the etymology had anything to do with another cute term - "code rot", but no. No science of origin here. Programming culture (today?) is highly egotistical, judgmental, conformist and, paradoxically, divisive.* Ageist too. Such pejoratives are now common in tech. So we wait for gangrenous functions or putrid variables. * I mean I don't see cabbage farmers go at each other with the same ferocity and psycho venom about methodologies of growing greener or purple(r) crop. (Ok, I admit my ignorance of the whole cabbage farming culture.)