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by prank7 3780 days ago
Lets not get caught in 'war of words'. There is no standard to it and I don't think it matters as long as you understand what it means.
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> There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.

> -- Phil Karlton

I like the self referential version:

"There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors."

> as long as you understand what it means.

Isn't the whole effect of litterary words to be specific but exclusive?