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[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 86 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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 46 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 29 points 4 months ago (2 children)

He did write some Fortran in his past! What made you think it was Fortran influence?

[–] Templa 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I'd say because fortran is often used for calculations such as numerical analysis where you have x, y and z for example.

I have written fortran code in the past and it was mainly for that.

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 3 points 4 months ago

Your first few programming languages usually influence you the most for the rest of your career.

[–] HaywardT@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 4 months ago

And the rest of you are COBOL programmers.

[–] dan@upvote.au 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

shortest names possible

This film from 1975 is still relevant today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hdJQkn8rtA