This was something going around the internet in 2014, I’m not sure on the original source. There does seem to be an updated version here now.

| What we say | What we mean | |--------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------| | Horrible hack | Horrible hack that I didn’t write | | Temporary workaround | Horrible hack that I wrote | | It’s broken | There are bugs in your code | | It has a few issues | There are bugs in my code | | Obscure | Someone else’s code does not have comments | | Self-documenting | My code doesn’t have comments | | That’s why it’s an awesome language | It’s my favourite language and it’s really easy to do something in it | | You’re thinking in the wrong mindset | It’s my favourite language and it’s really hard to do something in it | | I can read this Perl script | I wrote this Perl script | | I can’t read this Perl script | I didn’t write this Perl script | | Bad structure | Someone else’s code is badly organised | | Complex structure | My code is badly organised | | Bug | The absence of a feature I like | | Out of scope | The absence of a feature I don’t like | | Clean solution | It works and I understand it | | We need to rewrite it | It works but I don’t understand it | | emacs is better than vi | It’s too peaceful here, lets start a flame war | | vi is better than emacs | It’s too peaceful here, lets start a flame war | | IMHO | You are wrong | | Legacy code | It works, but no one knows how | | ^X^Cquit^\[ESC][ESC]^C | I don’t know how to quit vi |

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