the lemmy.monster
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 days ago

Software Terminology

lemmy.ml

message-square
10
fedilink
  • cross-posted to:
  • [email protected]
128

Software Terminology

lemmy.ml

☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 days ago
message-square
10
fedilink
  • cross-posted to:
  • [email protected]
alert-triangle
You must log in or # to comment.
  • nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    2 hours ago

    What is the difference between an application and a program?

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      2 hours ago

      program tends to be the more general term while application tends to refer to a tool with a GUI

  • unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    6
    ·
    2 days ago

    An interesting way to misspell “subscription”

  • HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    edit-2
    2 days ago

    I mean, those words are still used by people in technical fields. It’s the laypeople who use “app” for everything, and even if “app” didn’t exist, they would still pick one generic word like “software” or “program” for everything since they don’t know the difference between any of the words on the left side.

  • CapriciousDay@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    25
    ·
    edit-2
    3 days ago

    Soon we will see the revelation of app driven development where the fundamental primitive type is an app.

    Thread -> app

    Class -> app

    Object -> app

    Struct -> app

    Union -> app

    String -> app

    Integer -> app

    Boolean -> app

    Don’t worry ram is cheap, right?

    • Simon 𐕣he 🪨 Johnson@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      3 days ago

      This already happens in enterprise code bases with dummies running the show and juniors coding. Every primitive is actually a god object that can work at any level of the software stack.

    • Drew Belloc@programming.dev
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      3 days ago

      At least we still got float right… right?

      • CapriciousDay@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        7
        ·
        3 days ago

        That’s three apps for each the sign, mantissa and exponent.

        • Drew Belloc@programming.dev
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          7
          ·
          3 days ago

  • MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    10
    ·
    3 days ago

    “Hey, wanna develop an app?”

Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml

programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: [email protected]

Post funny things about programming here! (Or just rant about your favourite programming language.)

Rules:

  • Posts must be relevant to programming, programmers, or computer science.
  • No NSFW content.
  • Jokes must be in good taste. No hate speech, bigotry, etc.
Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 27 users / day
  • 318 users / week
  • 2.39K users / month
  • 9.88K users / 6 months
  • 2 local subscribers
  • 35.8K subscribers
  • 1.62K Posts
  • 24.5K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml
  • cat_programmer@lemmy.ml
  • BE: 0.19.7
  • Modlog
  • Legal
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org