We’ve been using the wrong terminology, at least according to CNN. Apparently we should eschew the mundane references to threads, schedulers, overruns, and the like.
Really hip and with-it programmers now tend to “bro down and crush some code.” Don’t laugh. This is a real news story. You can tell it’s not BS by the headline “Some bemoan the…”. Hard-hitting journalists always lead their stories with this. :rolleyes:
So, according to those respected reporters, I need to stop being (and I quote) a “programmer who lives for the thrill of finding a single misplaced semicolon in thousands of lines of code” and get out there and… what? Go for the gusto? Be all that I can be? I dunno about ya’ll, but I let the compiler go for those wild semicolon hunting thrills. I’m just lazy, I guess.
But as the article says, we shouldn’t waste time on the outdated act of programming, the new wave is “bro-gramming”.
Good grief… :smack:
PS. I could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure the start-up company that left posters with the above “bro-” phrase was doing it ironically, or tongue-in-cheek. I don’t think the reporter picked up on that.
Sounds like a parody of some programmer management fad. Tag team programming, or whatever they called it years ago when they wanted all the programmers to pair up and take turns coding while the other watched. (Not that that can’t work, but mandating it was stupid.)
It perpetually pains me that our enterprise standard mainframe terminal app is called Attachmate Extra! X-Treme. I’m afraid to think what they’ll do to the name if they hit version 20 - probably call it Attachmate Extra! XXX-Treme!
At least our programmers don’t get burdened with the silly flavor of the month.
‘Brogramming’ reminds me of this April Fools’ video Log in with Atlassian account which I still can’t manage to un-see.
I have to admit I can imagine one of the fresh-out-of-college (but actually super talented) devs we hired recently actually uttering ''bro down and crush some code", although there would be much ridiculing and flinging of finger darts at his head afterward.
I’m a girl programmer, can I “bro down”? Is “bro” like “dude” these days and applies to all genders? Or do I have to “sis down”, or something equally wussy?
Nothing new here. I have an old Dilbert cartoon where he asks the Elbonians about their development methodology.
“We hold village meetings to boast of our skills and curse the devil-spawned end-users.”
“Sometimes we juggle.”
“At the last minute we slam out some code and go roller-skating.”
So, illegal Elbonian immigrants have taken over Elbo-gramming.
