• henfredemars@infosec.pub
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    6 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.

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      6 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.

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        6 months ago

        And you can write more than six characters, but only the first six are recognized. So APFLWSAC and APFLWSAF are really the same variable.

        And without namespaces, company policy reserves the first two characters for module prefix and Hungarian notation.