Given enough time, every large corporation will create a project named either Atlas or Genesis. Do not work on this project.
Re:Anything with "Global" as a prefix...
Ovid on 2007-05-03T09:02:59
Or anything with a variant of utils in the name is a good sign that you're about to enter a tar pit of ones and zeros.
Re:Anything with "Global" as a prefix...
Adrian on 2007-05-03T09:08:27
"unity", "unify", "unification" and "consolidate" are often bad too.
(this is fun:-) Re:Anything with "Global" as a prefix...
Ovid on 2007-05-03T09:32:00
Any class names with verbs in them. You would think people would realize this, but no
... My favorite was a coworker who found himself facing a class, not a method, but a class, named StartSession.
Re:Anything with "Global" as a prefix...
Aristotle on 2007-05-03T12:10:34
That’s the session that’s at the start, right?
*intentionally playing innocently dumb*
Re:Anything with "Global" as a prefix...
Ovid on 2007-05-03T12:27:27
That’s the session that’s at the start, right?Of course it is. They should have used a session queue and then could do:
my $sessions = $session->new;
my $start_session = $sessions->shift;Much more flexible that way
;) Re:Anything with "Global" as a prefix...
malte on 2007-05-03T18:00:26
For this, see the very insightful Kingdom of NounsRe:Anything with "Global" as a prefix...
Matts on 2007-05-03T13:12:50
Or "Universal".Re:Anything with "Global" as a prefix...
chromatic on 2007-05-03T17:39:16
With the possible exception of Acme::UNIVERSAL::new, of course.
