A Silicon Valley Guide To Tech Jargon
Everything is foobar
The key to understanding tech jargon is simply to Google the term together with the phrase “everything is,” like this —
in Smalltalk everything is an object
in Pascal everything is an event
in Ruby everything is an expression
in Java everything is an interface
in Lisp everything is parenthesized
in Python everything is indented
in C everything is a byte
in C# everything is a class
in C++ everything is structured
in BASIC everything is spaghetti
in Eiffel everything is a contract
in Go everything is opinionated
in COBOL everything is CAPITALIZED
in Fortran EVERYTHING is REAL
in Logo everything is a turtle
in PHP everything is an “elePHPant”
in Perl everything is a regular expression
in RegEx everything is /^(.*)$/
in TypeScript everything is typed
in JavaScript everything is prototyped
