What common programming concept has the wrong name?

Everybody calls it this, but it's not a good name. What are some examples?

Comments

[Mike Sherov]

Deprecation. Oftentimes people mistake "removed" for "deprecated".

[Philip]

The No1 candidate that comes to my mind is monad. I know it's a mathematical concept, but I sometimes get the feeling that it is used to appear smart rather than being a precise definition of what is happening. Purely functional programming (hello haskell) can be a big thing to learn and I don't see the point in introducing unnecessary complexity to this, as it makes learning more intimidating.

[Brian]

I've always thought that 'push request' seems more intuitive than 'pull request'

[Nested Software]

I agree! I think "pull request" is the kind of terminology that comes from thinking about how the underlying technology works first, as opposed to thinking of a use-case from a typical programmer's point of view. Also, welcome to Dev!

[Mike Lockhart]

Generics make the Types of Object method Arguments Specific instead of un-typed

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[Madelene Campos]

"Full stack developer". Hardly anyone is a "full stack developer". Does one person really specialize in all 7 OSI layers?

[Antonio Radovcic]

"Clean" Code. It promotes cleanliness of code for its own sake, and pretends there is a subjective "clean" state of code. Thus I think it could be called somehow different.

[Dave Stewart]

"Senior Developer" because most, aren't.

[Dave Stewart]

Vue should be called React because it's truly reactive, and React should be called Vue because it's only concerned with the view

[Antonio Radovcic]

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[Computer babaji]

The most misunderstood programming concept for beginners that if they learn programming,they can be like neo in matrix movies. But in reality, you cannot make more than 1 major product all by yourself. Even the computer (software is made apple, Microsoft etc) and hardware (cpu intel, amd , other parts by pc manufacturers )

[Keith]

MVC in PHP is not really related to the original.

[Ulisses Cavalcante]

Serverless, they running into a server yet the name no make sense.

[Markel F.]

Serverless

[Nick Hodges]

Generics was always weird to me.

They are really "Parameterized Types" if you ask me.

[Joseph Thomas]

Not a concept but a command, Git's checkout has never made sense to me.

[Chris C]

My 2019 pet peeve is the new trend for all of these startups and corporations using "AI" And "Machine Learning" as a buzzword to churn profits.

AI has a very specific definition and use case. It's a concept, not a reality. There are no quantum, blockchain, machine learning compooters that perform magic. It takes a lot of hardware to run that level of IBM Watson-like software. Just like it takes a lot of wires to run a sufficient wireless network.

At the end of the day, it's all code and the nightmare that is Youtube's suggestion algorithms show that we are very far from some futuristic self-driving vehicle Facebook car.