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perching_aixlast Monday at 6:04 PM1 replyview on HN

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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flohofwoelast Monday at 10:45 PM

> Isn't that basically all C/C++ code?

Maybe for code that was written in the early 90's, but the only 'tradition' that has survived is calling the vanilla loop variable 'i'.