I was once asked by our CTO to remove all instances of the word “nonce” from our crypto code. (British slang for paedophile/pervert)
And writing code to find, kill, and reap orphaned children is routine stuff. I mean, you wouldn’t want to risk pesky zombie orphans running amok in your system!
Programmers have all kinds of weird keywords that if they’re taken out of context would be alarming.
The Linux copy command raises some eyebrows. And even a warning.
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I was once asked by our CTO to remove all instances of the word “nonce” from our crypto code. (British slang for paedophile/pervert)
And writing code to find, kill, and reap orphaned children is routine stuff. I mean, you wouldn’t want to risk pesky zombie orphans running amok in your system!
I thought nonce meant extremely stupid. I heard “You fucking nonce” once or twice before.