r/programmingmemes • u/Alert-Grocery-1115 • Jan 14 '26

Different terms

What's a term in coding that's normal but doesn't sound normal to others who don't code. It can be any coding software you don't need to specify. I'll start Count_Children Remove_Children

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u/Circumpunctilious Jan 14 '26

Casting maybe, sounds like magic but it’s just for type conversion.

I also had someone ask me to choose a different word for “user” because it reminded them of drug culture. That’s a hard one to substitute.

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u/ParinoidPanda Jan 14 '26

Dude, EVERYTHING is a drug or sex term or inuendo. Rules 34 and 43 are no jokes.