{"id":105927,"date":"2021-11-16T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/?p=105927"},"modified":"2021-11-16T06:26:15","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T14:26:15","slug":"20211116-00","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20211116-00\/?p=105927","title":{"rendered":"Microspeak: Righteous"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the English language, the word righteous<\/i> means “virtuous” or “morally right”, and it comes with religious connotations. It also has an informal meaning of “excellent”, devoid of religious significance.<\/p>\n

At Microsoft the term righteous<\/i> has become a preferred adjective for things which are right and proper, in alignment with best practices, or otherwise a Good Thing or the Right Thing to Do.<\/p>\n

This obviously looks like righteous work, but we may not be able to schedule it in the current milestone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s a righteous question which I already plan on asking at ship room.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This design change looks righteous, but I’m concerned about the compatibility consequences.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The term is particularly applicable to bug fixes, where it means that the fix is definitely correct.<\/p>\n

Alice reviewed it and said it was a righteous fix.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A colloqualism that has become a preferred adjective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[105,26],"class_list":["post-105927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-microspeak","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

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