use Perl

• Anything with "Global" as a prefix... (Score:1)

  by Adrian (66)

  ... is often dodgy too.
  • Re: (Score:2)

    by Ovid (2709)

    Or anything with a variant of utils in the name is a good sign that you're about to enter a tar pit of ones and zeros.
    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Adrian (66)

      "unity", "unify", "unification" and "consolidate" are often bad too.
      
      (this is fun :-)
      • Re:Anything with "Global" as a prefix... (Score:2)

        by Ovid (2709) on 2007.05.03 4:32 (#54825) Homepage Journal

        Any class names with verbs in them. You would think people would realize this, but no ...

        My favorite was a coworker who found himself facing a class, not a method, but a class, named StartSession.

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        • Re: (Score:1)

          by Aristotle (5147)

          That’s the session that’s at the start, right?

          *intentionally playing innocently dumb*
          • Re: (Score:2)

            by Ovid (2709)

            That’s the session that’s at the start, right?

            Of course it is. They should have used a session queue and then could do:

            my $sessions      = $session->new;
            my $start_session = $sessions->shift;

            Much more flexible that way ;)
        • Re: (Score:2)

          by malte (1708)

          For this, see the very insightful Kingdom of Nouns [blogspot.com]