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May 26, 2005
Most hated word of the day: "generify"
I hear this word all the time at work: “generify,” meaning “make generic.” As in, “we should generify this function, so we can use it in other places.” What is wrong with either of the verbs “to abstract” or “to generalize”?
Posted by Andrew at May 26, 2005 11:30 AM