New programmer jargon

Visitors on stackoverflow.com were asked: “What programming terms did you come up with, so that they become popular in your circles (that is, did you hear that someone repeats them)?

Below is a free translation of the most popular answers.


Iodine Conditions
writing a condition in the form of if (constant == variable) instead of the natural if (variable == constant), for example, if (4 == foo). Because it looks like “if blue is sky” or “if high is a man”.

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Pokemon error handling (Pokémon Exception Handling)
When you catch all the errors and then try to analyze them somehow.

        try{
            //code
        }catch ( Exception ex){
            if( ex instanceof SubException){              
                //code
            }else if(ex instanceof SubSubException){
                //code
            }else{
                //code
            }
        }

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(Egyptian brackets)
, :

if (a == b) {
    printf("hello");
}

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( (Kernighan and Ritchie) „C Programming Language“, K&R).

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(A Duck)
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(Refuctoring)
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(Stringly Typed)

„“ (Strongly typed).
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Doctype (Doctype Decoration)
- DOCTYPE, , HTML .

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(Heisenbug)
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(Jimmy)
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(Higgs-Bugson)
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(nopping)
. Nopping NOP, „“ ( ) . „nap“ (), , „, , “.

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(Hindenbug)

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Counterbug

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(Bloombug)

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(Unicorny)
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(Barack Obama)
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(Loch Ness Monster bug)
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- (Baklava code)
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(Workaroundability)
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, (Fear Driven Development)
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(Common Law Feature)
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(Bicrement)
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(Programmer fuel)
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/ (Hot potato / Hot potatoes)
Http Https ( , ). , .

«hot potatoes»://-.com/auth

(Cake)
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/// </summary>
public CustomerValidationResponse Validate(CustomerValidationRequest request, bool useStrictValidation, bool throwIfSessionExpired)

(Chunky salsa)
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Squizzle-giz
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# (Hooker Code)
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101 (Reality 101 failure)
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(Hydra Code)
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(Protoduction)
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(Ninja Comments)
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(Rubberducking)
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(Databasically)
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(Smurf Naming Convention)
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(Megamoth)
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apt-got wgot
, ( Unix) apt-get , wget.

-:
«I apt-got 100MB of updates this morning»
«Once this loop has wgot that file, it takes the md5 hash»

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