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I quite like the chirurgical, strategic feel of the exposition. Denotes clear thinking, and/or multiple revisions.

When I work in some code I often spend too much time on reviewing and enhancing code in this way, but mine being a side project all that work (I’m not the best programmer by far) is either for future me or for no one, and often I end up feeling that I lost time for nothing.

But I like to spend time in making this kind of clean code {shrug}.



chirurgical [ kī-rûr′jĭ-kəl ] adj. Surgical. No longer in technical use.


Yeah, sorry, still used in spanish, my mother tongue. My bad!


don't apologize for using a great word. :)


Totally agreed, my comment was just to add meaning in case others also wondered , not a criticism. Gotta love trans-language words. My friends used to say “go hands” whenever it was time to vamanos.


I mean, in much the same way, "lexicon" is French for "the xicon"...


But hands, manos, does not even appear in vámonos.


I was about to say the same, but I just googled to be sure. Apparently "vamanos" is a common (mis)spelling?


I always thought it was vaminos.

Spanish speakers are unlikely to make that mistake, though, because the ending -monos is regular for first-person plural reflexive imperatives. https://es.wiktionary.org/wiki/mirarse#Conjugaci%C3%B3n

(And -monos is etymologically very transparent - it's just the first person plural ending -mos, familiar to everybody, with the first person plural reflexive pronoun nos suffixed onto it and eliding the -s of -mos.)


It might be a Texas accent thing, like green toad (sappo verde) for happy birthday.


The Norwegian name for it is very similar. Kirurgisk :)


It's also used (at the very least) by the Indian Medical education system to denote a higher degree in surgery, called the M. Ch.


in German also "chirurgisch"

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chirurgisch


It's from the Greek χειρουργία, compound word for hand-work, which nowadays is synonymous to surgery.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CF%87%CE%B5%CE%B9%CF%81%CE%B...


In case anyone else wonders, the villain’s name in No Country for Old Men switches the G and R.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Chigurh


In Portuguese: Cirurgico




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