I guess it's from before your time. Back in the early two thousands or so.

You know about the color purple, right?

@tchrist I like it.

See, some euphemisms are good.

Homeric epithets were made for the meter.

Kind of.

They were certainly used frequently for the meter.

Metre?

The prime factor for whether someone is a good coder or not is simple: can you write good code? It's not too hard to tell whether someone has what it takes.