[via fred wilson] tom evslin decodes the language programmers speak. a few excerpts:
“it’s ninety-five percent done,”
translation: the remaining five percent will take ninety-five percent of the elapsed time.
“it’s code complete.”
translation: some code has been written. features will be added later.
“the code is 95% reusable.”
translation: five percent of the source code is utterly and irretrievably Lost.
“it’s alpha ready.”
translation: a lot of code has been written; none tested.
“it’s beta ready.”
translation: it’s alpha ready.”
“ship it!”
translation: the development team is sick of this and wants to move on to something else. the customers will test it.
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