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New Android 2.2 Froyo API: Log.wtf() (android.com)
110 points by kacy on May 21, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 15 comments



I love how it apparently stands for "What a terrible failure".


Talk about reverse engineering an acronym :)


Wikipedia calls it a Backronym: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backronym


"Backronym"? That's obviously a postmanteau :-)


Portmanteau


I know, see the ":-)" ?


It's also worth noting that the Wave API supports direct lolcat insertion: http://code.google.com/p/google-wave-resources/issues/detail...


Reminds me of the logcat command.

http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/adb.html

As the presenter at my first android user group meeting said, it sounds an awful lot like "lolcat".


You should try issuing "adb lolcat" sometime...


Woah! Impressive.


And where is the BBQ extension to that function?


When called in reverse it indicates a SUCCESS!

FTW!


It's not that simple. Some people say that in the reverse acronym the W was originally expanded to World.

  Question: W to F?
  Answer: F the W(orld)!
  Chorus: W the F! ... (repeat)
  Hero: For the win!


I came across this last night, PURE AWESOME!


It would be practical to use as well. Neat.




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