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Dynamic Programming is not Black Magic – Quentin Santos (qsantos.fr)

submitted 10 months ago by popcar2@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

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[–] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

“Daemon”, for a process that is detached from your terminal

That's factually incorrect. Daemons are often spawned from "early" processes whose ancestors are not TTYs.

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 3 points 10 months ago

No, seriously. Article probably means background processes. Maybe aplies to session-daemons or user-daemons. Other daemons (udev, logrotate) were started long before there was any shell.

[–] ericjmorey@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

“Cascading Style Sheets”, just to mean that properties can be overridden

This one is really wrong too. But I think his overall point is made clear by other examples. Nomenclature tends toward jargon in software culture.

But that's true in any field.