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(How to trigger programmers (and make them irrationally angry) (programming.dev)

submitted 11 hours ago by potoo22@programming.dev to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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Probably not a good title to seek upvotes. If it does get upvotes, more programmers get share in your pain 😅

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[–] Hammerheart@programming.dev 11 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

short variable names, and the only vowel is 'i'

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 3 points 4 hours ago

I inherited an old Japanese codebase. Tons of stuff was just single-letter variables. Apparently, this used to be at least somewhat common here. I spent a lot of time just updating code to replace vars with something meaningful (and found bonus bugs due to improper scoping with same var names as a bonus). Didn't have an IDE that would easily do it for me at the time and running something like sed felt too risky.