So that explains why I'm unemployed, I'm a programmer...
At 10:03 AM 1/16/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>Yes... There are no programmers anymore. We are now developers.
>
>Tom C.
>
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>From: "Peifer, William [OCDUS]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 8:32 AM
>Subject: RE: Mangling English (Papped)
>
>
> > Paul Ewins wrote (or was that "architected"):
> >
> > > Try working in IT - they are worse than politicians for mangling
>English.
> > > The one that I hate the most, the one that really makes me grind my
> > > teeth is "architect". Not the noun, the verb. To architect something is
> > > what a systems architect is hired for. So he/she goes off and starts
> > > architecting the new system, and when it is finished they do a review
> > > to makes sure it was well architected. Honest, I have heard all of these
> > > bastardised versions of the word used in just those ways. Architecting
> > > seems to be a higher level process than designing....
> >
> > Sing it with me now, Paul....
> > "A gerunding we will go,
> > A gerunding we will go,
> > Hi ho the derrio,
> > A gerunding we will go!" :-)
> >
> > This noun-to-verb thing really gets my goat also. I say we let the
>Duchess
> > beat them about the head with a wet copy of Strunk and White until all the
> > ****ing gerunds fall out of their day planners. Aarrrgh!!
> >
> > Bill Peifer
> > Rochester, NY
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