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loegyesterday at 6:00 PM1 replyview on HN

Math people shouldn't be allowed to write code. It's not the unicode, so much as the extremely terse variable names.


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perching_aixyesterday at 6:04 PM

Isn't that basically all C/C++ code? Admittedly I don't have much exposure to it, but it's pretty much a trope in and of itself, along with Java and C# suffering from the opposite problem.

Such a silly issue too, you'd think we'd have come up with some automated wrangling for this, so that those experienced with a codebase can switch over and see super short versions of identifiers, while people new to it all will see the long stuff.

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