21 Nov
2011
21 Nov
'11
8:41 p.m.
Consider the
fellow who's devised his own allocation algorithms
using a Fibonacci series introducing his narrative with "Lieber
Leser". Or the fellow who, in his buffer-management scheme makes
reference to "guru beads". Or the database author who talks about
quipus.
This kind of thing is actually a peeve of mine. I have nothing
against learning a little German, find quipus mildly interesting,
etc. But there is a time and place for such stuff, and it's *not* in
the middle of trying to understand and debug someone else's code!
This kind of stuff just comes off as a snotty "I know more than you
do".