In Praise of Simplicity or The Power of Plain Language in a Buzzword World

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In Praise of Simplicity or The Power of Plain Language in a Buzzword World

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July 9, 2025 at 5:00 am

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bradford_ayers Ten Centuries Points: 1152 More actions · Answer 1

I really appreciate this post. I feel the same way. I always do best when seeing concrete examples or better yet doing something new myself with guidance to help me along. In addition, I'm usually so heads down with work, I often can't keep up with the latest buzzword soup. Thanks for putting your thoughts to words because I bet it will resonate with lots of people out there.

call.copse SSCoach Points: 18210 More actions · Answer 2

This is a post I really associate with, since our small company was swallowed up by corporates. Unfortunately no corporate town hall or presentation is permitted to be free from jargon or explained in such a way that you can make sense of it. The corporate smokescreen must obscure everything! Especially that most of the executive have no clue what's going on.

As a result, I truly hate jargon with every fibre of my being and just snipe to trusted colleaues on IM when obliged to watch this total bollix.

Ken McKelvey SSCoach Points: 18942 More actions · Answer 3

call.copse wrote:

As a result, I truly hate jargon with every fibre of my being .

Just load this and weave the results into the conversation! I find it amusing when people start to agree with you.

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July 10, 2025 at 2:35 am

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Outstanding! Totally loved this!!!

Rod

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004645 More actions · Answer 5

THIS!!! (from the article)...

Plain language isn’t a lack of sophistication; it’s a sign of mastery.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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