624

The easiest problem (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 7 months ago by PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

103 comments fedilink hide all child comments

https://mastodon.social/@lovegame/112402050452885908

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 123 points 7 months ago

I worked with a developer who insisted on using the shortest names possible. God I hated debugging his code.

I’m talking variable names like AAxynj. Everything looking like matrix math.

[-] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 65 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Ah, must've been a fortran developer. I swear they have this ability to make the shortest yet the least memorable variable names. E.g. was the variable called APFLWS or APFLWD? Impossible to remember without going back and forth to recheck the definition. Autocomplete won't help you because both variables exist.