Most Commonly used sentences by Programmers

Below are list of some of the most commonly used sentences by programmers either during programming, discussions / meetings, code review, testing.

  • I/We’ll will Try
  • WTF
  • It works on my machine
  • We will do it
  • Try Restarting the machine
  • Why?
  • It’s not the way to do
  • Kill the process
  • I would suggest
  • Sure
  • S**t
  • It works!!!
  • That’s not my code.
  • I don’t know
  • Let me check this

These are just a list of sentences that i come across every day.

Are there any other sentences missing in the above list? Feel free to share it in the comment section of this blog post.

    8 Comments

  1. JR
    June 10, 2012
    Reply

    This will never work.
    Why does this work ?
    TODO: rewrite everything
    FIXIT: fix all this stuff

  2. June 11, 2012
    Reply

    Hi JR , that was some cool additions to the list…

  3. Bruno
    June 10, 2012
    Reply

    For a web developer: “Cache”

  4. Rahul Dubey
    June 11, 2012
    Reply

    1)please god , let this code work
    2)let me try last time
    3)coding is fun
    4)logic is the key
    5)hello world

  5. Chun Tat David Chu
    June 11, 2012
    Reply

    Haha… I used
    1) It works on my machine
    2) Try the magic reboot

  6. alan
    June 11, 2012
    Reply

    1) Theoretically that should work.
    2) If it didn’t happen twice, it didn’t happen. (run-time bug)

  7. khoral
    June 12, 2012
    Reply

    I often use:
    ” – It passed theoretical tests.
    – wtf are theoretical tests?
    – I assumed it should work…

  8. Chris Frees
    August 15, 2012
    Reply

    “That’s not my code.” Lol I’ve said that a few times.

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