In the same way I’m sure the word ‘sacrosanct’ wouldn’t have been part of the average footy fan’s lexicon before the phrase “the head is sacrosanct” was coined, many of the words commonly used in computer science strike me as being a bit retarded. I’m sure many aren’t even words.

So, I hereby pledge to avoid using these words and start using their more sensible counterparts:

deprecate

obsolete

instantiate

construct

create

performant

performs adequately

truncate

abbreviate

cut off

If you’ve got any more suggestions, let me know.