Like most AAA games, when debugging I get a huge amount of text output on the TTY. All very useful stuff, but when you are trying to find a particular line in the output, it can be a nightmare,
So I tend to use "Guru Meditation #%d"
No one else in the company uses that string and so it's easy to find.
I'm sitting here waiting for a full rebuild of the game to finish, wondering how many of the old school phrases are still in use.
Some have been run with and have taken on all sorts of new meaning, like alt2600. In my day it was just a newsgroup forum about phone hacking, now it has taken on a whole new meaning.
Some have died, no one talks about MOB's anymore, ( for those of you under 50 that was a Moveable Object Block ) though the similar phrase BOB seems to have lasted a lot longer. Vector BOB's are often mentioned in certain circles.
Others have died as the technology made them redundant, like HAM (hold and modify mode). Another Amiga term.
I also have a library of stupid one line jokes I cannot get out of my head going as far back as the goon show. Be alert! The country needs lerts.
sorry
I just wondered if any of you still use anything from the old days.