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by DonHopkins 465 days ago
I hope the term "deyodawgification" enters the pantheon of elegant code purification terms of art, alongside the classics like "degotofying", "deCOMtamination", and "outparamdelling".

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/xzibit-yo-dawg

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Gecko:DeCOMtamination_Algorithm

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=455943

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22708241

Who knows (or can invent) any other good ones:

Deadlocksmithing, JSONcology, YAMLectomy, XMLimination, DeDTDification, DeXMLEntitification, ExCDATAration, AntiPOJOification, SOAPerfluousness Scrubbing, WSDLectomy, Delogorrhea, DeK8ification, HelmholtzianRechartification, DevOpsDevangelicalism, FactoryFactoryDefactoringDefactoring, Antiquasimonolithicmicrofragmentedmacrodecontainerizationarianism...

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