"Brian Sarka" <br*********@labor.state.ak.us> wrote in message
news:10*************@corp.supernews.com...
Okay,
Maybe I've been at this longer than most and my experience has been shaped
by languages and terminology that didn't change for decades at a time but
there is one thing that bothers me enough to post about: the use of the
phrase "new up" to mean instantiate.
I thought it was kind of cute the *very* first time I heard it, but no
longer...
It is a bit frustrating, but minimally so. I think its use tends to stem
from instantiate being a rather daunting word, its much easier to say "new
up" than it is to risk screwing up and mispronouncing the word(atleast for
me, my vocabulary is much broader when I'm typing then when I'm talking).
Its just not a nice one to say. I personally tend to say "create" to avoid
it.
Of course, instantiate also never seems to show up in entry level books or
in any magazines, so I would imagine alot of people who use the term may be
unaware instantiate even exists.
But, on the whole, its still not as annoying as people who insist on using
u, r, 4, and 2 instead of typing out simple words, people who don't
understand capitalization, and the like(sadly, each of those are starting to
become more and more prevalent, even in techincal fields. I've even seen
some of these issues in comments).
