Monday, March 06, 2006

Language: flipping the Bozo bit

There's a phrase in the software development world -- not heard often but here it is: flipping the Bozo bit. Coined by Jim McCarthy in his book Dynamics Of Software Development: Don't Flip the Bozo Bit and 53 More Rules for Delivering Great Software on Time (see this explanatory link, this link, this link, this link, and OK this link too), it refers back to the Firesign Theatre comedy album I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus (1970 or so) which, as one Firesign album I have yet to hear, I understand divides humanity into various types, one which is the really useless ones, called Bozos (more on this to come).

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