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flafla2 on Jan 11, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Language Server Protocol implementation for Swift ...

> stringly-typed JSON

Off topic but I love this, definitely stealing it. Did you coin this?

alexjm on Jan 11, 2019 [–]

I learned this term from a 2012 blog post, which summarized a (now deleted) Stack Overflow question:

https://blog.codinghorror.com/new-programming-jargon/

My other favorite from that list is "baklava code" -- code that has too many layers.

flafla2 on Jan 12, 2019 | [–]

This is great, thanks!

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