Coding Anecdotes

@2021-11-26
Xyzzy is a magic word from the Colossal Cave Adventure computer game. In computing, the word is sometimes used as a meta-syntactic variable or as a video game cheat code, the canonical "magic word". In mathematics, the word is used as a mnemonic for the cross product.

@2021-11-26
The Wikipedia page says the pronunciation is /ɡlɑːb/ with a in father (hover tips)., while it originates from word 'global'. There must be some story behind this.

@2021-09-30
In 2007, Jeff Atwood made the quote that was popularly referred to as Atwood's Law: “Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript.” Source:Wiki

@2021-09-26
correct answer Distributed Object Technology Network Enabled Technologies
Amongst all google answers like this and this, and wikipedia .NET, .NET Framework, no one mentioned what is DOT. It's funny that I can find the full form of an English term not in English community but in Chinese community .NET 英文全称是什么

DOTNET 就是.NET，严格说是：.Net Framework 框架。但为什么叫 DOTNET（.NET）呢？在计算机行业 DOT 是 Distributed Object Technology 的简称，意为分布式对象技术。DOT 恰好与“点”的英语单词相同，DOT 的音标[dɔt]。.NET 是一个微软开发的编程环境，里面可以使用 C#,VB 等多种编程语言。

What is DOT

Distributed objects technology works by intercepting calls to distributed objects and executing system code which carries out the process of locating objects and sending data and execution instructions. All this is carried out ‘under the bonnet’ with the programmer not being forced to include communication code. The architecture of a distributed objects system is shown in Figure 2. Here, a number of objects spread around a collection of computers communicate by invoking methods, all data transfer being carried out by means of arguments to the method calls which correspond to the messages. source >