Something odd happened:  my daily message from expressio.fr described an idiom I recognised as something used (in its English form) in connection with computers a long time ago.  The idiom was "un lit de Procruste", so in English "a Procrustean bed".  The English idiom led to the concept of "procrustean assignment" in the computing world fairly early on (I first came across some time in the academic year beginning in autumn 1966 when I was a maths research student who occassionally played with computers) and later on that term got into the user manuals for Sinclair computers and into FOLDOC).  But this was the first time I ever saw someting with even marginal computing relevance on or from expressio.fr. 
SQL uses procrustean assignment for strings - ie it pads to increase the length or truncates to reduce the length when copying into a fixed length string (char(<length>) or nchar(<length>), but it doesn't call it procrustean assignment.  Perhaps SQL not using that term is a result of the RDBMS development team at IBM being cut off during the early development of Sequel from the old style grammar school and Oxbridge-educated Brits Codd (IBM management decision) and Date (he was in IBM Europe in the early 70s, so nowhere near the relational database team) and consisting wholely of people with no knowedge of classical myths and the vocabulary that those myths had added to English.