Language definition
One of the things that allows you to be productive when coding is that you can define your own ideas into a single, referencable* term that you can then give to the computer and it will know what you mean.
For coding, this is an essential concept. It allows you to abstract a whole idea into a single word.
Now, this sort of thing is almost as useful in human to human communication as it is to human-computer communication. However, because of the (approximately) 500,000 EXISTING words, at least in English, there are those that frown upon taking this action.
I think that, especially in written communication, preventing this kind of thing is silly. Even if it does mean you redefine some things, in the end it makes for more efficient and enjoyable communication.
The fun part about this is I’m only writing this post in order to be able to reference it when I define some words in my next post. :-)
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* This isn’t apparently a word. I hope you’ll recognize the irony.
