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- adjective Common misspelling of
medieval .
Etymologies
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Accidentally coined by technicians designing the filters of Yahoo! Mail in 2001. To protect against a JavaScript bug, the function eval (short for evaluate) was disabled by automatically replacing every instance of the string eval with the string review, which is theoretically synonymous in English text and disables relevant JavaScript code. However, eval also got changed when it was a substring of words like medieval, and medireview was adopted because its roots and morphemes resemble real English compound words.
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bilby commented on the word medireview
Is there a general term for computerspeak that was born of programming issues?
September 2, 2024
alexz commented on the word medireview
Hi Bilby,
I think 'jargon' tends to be a more encompassing word which isn't limited to computers.
One of my favourite jargon words is 'Heisenbug' which is a bug which disappears when you turn debug logging on.
When you get a Heisenbug, you basically get a free clue that the bug is related to timing or race conditions of 2 processes causing a branch.
September 2, 2024
bilby commented on the word medireview
Like Cupertino effect.
September 2, 2024
alexz commented on the word medireview
AI chat result from Claude 3 ""geek speak" or "hacker slang"."
September 2, 2024