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So, how's the job search going?

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Surprisingly, yes, I do. Cucumber is a testing tool ~~for ruby applications~~ for a whole lot of programming languages.
- Yeah, we use gherkin, which is a variety of cucumber. Programmers name things weird. Java is a coffee bean and C is just a letter; they've just gotten big enough that people recognize them now.
  
  Java is also an island
  (Sorry, small inside joke for German-speaking Java programmers)
  
  And slang for coffee, which is some old tech too IIRC
  
  Java for insels
  
  C is just a letter
  It's the successor to B, which was derived from BCPL ("Basic Combined Programming Language")
  Incidentally, C++ is a reference to how integer values are iterated in C. And then C# is a pithy take on C++ wherein you've stacked two rows of plus signs on top of each other.
  There's often some rhyme or reason to these names.
  
  I found this interesting, was there an A?
  Proceeds to go look it up while still hoping for your knowledge
  
  Gherkin is the syntax, Cucumber is a specific implementation.
  
  Java is an island
  
  With capybara and selenium
  
  Have always personally seen Gherkin being used with Cucumber, as I believe that they're two parts of the same whole, but I'm happy to be corrected if wrong :).
  My understanding is that Gherkin is the syntax used to write the scenarios / acceptance criteria, whilst Cucumber is the tool that interprets said scenarios and executes them as automated tests.
  
  There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things
  -- Phil Karlton
  
  I wonder what A and B looked like XD

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