Plain speaking

Many years ago, storage was expensive and so were computers, so clever programmers developed techiniques to squeeze as much as possible out of the limited resources they had at their disposal. Then stuff got cheaper and IMHO the art of programmimg changed from efficiency to ease-of-use.

Unfortunately, we seem to be treating the English language the same way! My least favourite word at present is probably "incentivise" - ugly in the extreme.

Here are a few I have come across recently and my simple alternatives:

• Operationalise - Do
• Verbalise - Say
• Transition (as a verb - yuck) - Move
• Compartmentalise - Sort
• Leverage - Use
• Incentivise - Kick

Virtualisation is all about the most efficient use of the resuorces available - so let's get our brains and mouths working the same way!!


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tags: virtualisation |  virtualization