On Wed, Sep 7, 2022 at 6:27 PM Parrot Raiser <1parr...@gmail.com> wrote:

> >
> > That said, right now gmail is claiming whipupitude is misspelled...
> >
> An alternative is "whipitupitude" (the difference being the first "it".
>
> Given the examples I've seen over the years, there's a need for an
> opposite to "idiomatic", for programming that arrives at a solution by
> a Rube Goldberg/Heath Robinson sort of convoluted and unnecessary
> path, or utterly abuses the language in a fashion that contradicts its
> underlying purpose or philosophy (writing video games in sed or
> invoicing programs in Lisp). "Idiotmatic" suggests itself. :-)*
>

  Sure you don't want "idiosyncratic"?


Eirik

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