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• Five-Dollar Words For Programmers, Part Five: Reification

  Today, another in my series on awesomely arcane words for programmers . Reification is the process of turning something that is normally thought of as an abstract concept into something more concrete . It’s from the Latin res facere , “thing making”. Read More... Posted Friday, April 17, 2009 7:36 AM by Eric Lippert | 7 Comments Filed under: C#, Big Words

• Five-Dollar Words For Programmers, Part Three: Homoiconic

  Jeff Atwood was kind enough to once more give me the shout-out in his blog the other day . Thanks Jeff! This inspires me to continue my series on five-dollar words for programmers. Here’s one that I only learned relatively recently, when I helped write Read More... Posted Monday, March 23, 2009 1:33 PM by Eric Lippert | 24 Comments Filed under: Rarefied Heights, C#, Lambda Expressions, Big Words, Language Design