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The easiest problem (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 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.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] geogle 67 points 5 months ago

72 characters per line/card.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

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

[–] mkwt 21 points 5 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

And the rest of you are COBOL programmers.