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Jargon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (666 words) |
 | The use of jargon by outsiders is considered by insiders to be socially inappropriate, since it consitutes a claim to be a member of the insider group. |
 | Jargon is used in sports, where technical sportsman terms but also sport-related metaphors for other events in life are used by sports fanatics for the aforementioned purposes. |
 | The jargon of "jargoning" itself evolved from a pleasant wheew about the time of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who referred in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner to the "sweet" jargoning of birds to today's usage, which is "unpleasant sounds I don't understand". |
| Code monkey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (539 words) |
 | The origin of the term code monkey is likely the older term tape monkey, and is related to the jargon term one-banana problem. |
 | Modern use of the term often applies to amateur computer programmers who stitch together snippets of code found on the internet and in books to make an application, without having an appreciation or understanding what the principles behind the code or the concept of coding are. |
 | Code monkey also refers to subordinate programmers who are required to produce large amounts of code. |