See Java, definition 1.
Language-centric religion which claims to gift its worshippers with massive software engineering advantages, despite the fact that its type system uses broken argument overriding. Eiffel followers have never heard the famous Fred Brooks quote: "There is no silver bullet." They have listened, but they have not heard.
Buzzword that is used by highly paid technology consultants and other stooges of The Man to describe the technological advantages of proprietary systems that produce demand for expensive consultants, particularly when said systems have no actual technological advantages over Free Software systems.
Example: "There are no enterprise-quality tools that compile languages other than Java to the Java platform. By contrast, the Microsoft .NET(TM) strategy provides enterprise-level language interoperability, in the form of C#, Eiffel, and Visual Basic compilers for the Microsoft Common Language Runtime(TM)."
The state of being wrong at every conceivable scale of resolution. That is, from a distance, a fractally wrong person's worldview is incorrect; and furthermore, if you zoom in on any small part of that person's worldview, that part is just as wrong as the whole worldview.
Debating with a person who is fractally wrong leads to infinite regress, as every refutation you make of that person's opinions will lead to a rejoinder, full of half-truths, leaps of logic, and outright lies, that requires just as much refutation to debunk as the first one. It is as impossible to convince a fractally wrong person of anything as it is to walk around the edge of the Mandelbrot set in finite time.
If you ever get embroiled in a discussion with a fractally wrong person on the Internet--in mailing lists, newsgroups, or website forums--your best bet is to say your piece once and ignore any replies, thus saving yourself time.
1. A single-inheritance, single-dispatch, mostly-pure object-oriented language, with syntax resembling that of C++, whose implementations are required to compile to object code for a bytecode-based virtual machine. 2. The platform on which Java applications are supposed to run.
Synonym for "thingie". Most commonly used by technology consultants who wish to convey their inflated sense of self-importance in the world.
Example:
"We provide total solutions for enterprise computing."
Translation:
"We have thingies that we want to sell you which are actually no better than other thingies that you can get for free."
A language manifestly inferior to Python in almost every respect.
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