On Thursday 23 June 2005 10:31 am, Singletoned wrote: > Rocco Moretti wrote: > > Steven D'Aprano wrote: > <snip> > > > That's the joys of a mostly self-taught programming knowledge: you miss > > > out on all the buzzwords. > > > > Being mostly self taught myself, I have a tendancy to use infrequently > > encountered terms in related but technically inappropriate contexts, > > confusing the better informed people I deal with. ;-) > > Indeed. I find I use even more buzzwords because I can just make up as > many as I want.
As fun as that is ;-), it does make it hard to communicate. It seems to me that I spend a lot of time trying to figure out what buzzwords mean, only to find that 9/10ths of them are for things I've already done somewhere. Of course, that 10th one can be a doozy, "metaclasses" comes to mind. And it does make it easier to find help on problems, if you know what other people call them. -- Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com ) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.anansispaceworks.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
