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Thread: where did the term borked come from?
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Groovymarlin
Fri Jul 16, 2004 12:19 am
#14
It's probably a combination of all of the above.
I use the term constantly and always thought of it as a way of saying something was really broken. (As in, it's so broken that "broke" is mispelled to describe it.) In my mind, the Muppet Chef thing is a funny coincidence, as is the supreme court nominee fiasco.
ASrai
Mon Jul 19, 2004 3:42 pm
#15
borken, bjorken: In computer programming, an adjective which describes code that is so buggy that even the error messages are failing.
From an apocryphal story about a misspelled user alert window which read,
'User should not get here, this code is borken.
Example: Software Quality Assurance guy to Clumsy Programmer: Your new code isnt just failing in a few places-- this time it is totally borken.
I hate to tell you this boys and girls, but borked has been around a loooong time, even before Judge Bork Senate confirmation hearings. Trust me on this one, we were using this in high school programming class in the early 80's (OMG I just dated myself!
)
But ya gotta love the Swedish Chef!
From an apocryphal story about a misspelled user alert window which read,
'User should not get here, this code is borken.
Example: Software Quality Assurance guy to Clumsy Programmer: Your new code isnt just failing in a few places-- this time it is totally borken.
I hate to tell you this boys and girls, but borked has been around a loooong time, even before Judge Bork Senate confirmation hearings. Trust me on this one, we were using this in high school programming class in the early 80's (OMG I just dated myself!
)But ya gotta love the Swedish Chef!
WhiteHindu
Tue Jul 20, 2004 10:28 pm
#17
I was going to say it was a modification of 'borken' which typing skill to the max.
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