RE: Amusing Terms

Subject: RE: Amusing Terms
From: "Susan W. Gallagher" <sgallagher -at- kinzan -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 10:33:27 -0800

> I like "technical fiction." This term refers to user manuals written
> according to technical specifications or programmer
> assurances about how a
> system is going to turn out, in the absence of a working prototype.

I've always referred to that as "speculative non-fiction" ;-)

Then there was a section of Smalltalk code I once worked with labeled
"memory manglement"

And how many of us include a "Getting Startled" guide with our doc set?

-Sue

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