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In LA Story, the weatherman Harris K. Telemacher ends up befriending a road sign. It tells him that he'll find the key to his happiness by unscrambling the phrase, "HOW DADDY IS DOING". Harris spends most of the rest of the movie puzzling over this, and at the end, he takes his (new) girlfriend to meet the road sign. Yep, side of the LA highway, there they are, talking to a sign.

Harris: I never figured out the riddle, HOW DADDY IS DOING. It's a riddle too tough for me.
Sign: UNSCRAMBLE HOW DADDY IS DOING
Sara: I know it. It's an English crossword clue. See, unscramble means rearrange. Change the "s" with the "h," move the "ing" after the "s," put the "do" after them. Swap the "h" and the "s." And put the "i" behind the "d."
Harris: "Sing Doo Wah Diddy?" That's the mystery of the ages?
Sign: I HAD TO COME UP WITH SOMETHING FAST.

I just discovered that all this time, I've been doing object-oriented programming. I just never really grokked 'object' so I'd figured I was somehow not doing it. Then I get whacked in the head and I'm like, what? That's the mystery of the ages?

Then again, this is a common reaction to me when I stumble over something that's gotten a constant build-up of mystique. Like objects. When I finally grok it, I'm not sure whether to be disbelieving at how simple it actually is, or disbelieving at how much time I spent agonizing about it.

Date: 21 Dec 2012 07:39 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] murklins
I have the same reaction to design patterns. All of them. My educational background focused very little on software engineering and there are pretty massive gaps in what I learned, so though I know about, say, waterfall methodology and use cases, any time someone talks about the Adapter Pattern, or the Factory Pattern, my brain sort of shuts down and refuses to engage in these mystical patterns. And of course they are just names for sensible ways of designing software and I use them all the time, unconsciously. And yet. I still have to kick my brain into admitting they exist. They sound so impressive and formal!

Date: 21 Dec 2012 10:31 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Ha! I had much the same reaction to object-oriented literary criticism. I spent about a month wrestling with the concept, only to figure out that I'd been using OOO to think about literature for years.

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