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Posted by Tim Hunt on 10/27/71 11:54
Chung Leong wrote:
> Tim Hunt wrote:
> >
> > MY BIG PROBLEM IS THAT CASE INSENSITIVE LANGUAGES SEEMS TO ENCOURAGE
> > PEOPLE TO PRESS THE CAPS LOCK KEY ONCE THEN START TYPING OUT BIG BLOCKS
> > OF CODE IN ALL CAPITALS. THIS MAKES THE CODE HARDER TO READ THAN IT
> > SHOULD BE. IT SEEMS YOU HAVE TO READ MOST EVERYTHING SLOWLY AND
> > CAREFULLY TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYTHING IS CLEAR. ITS ONE OF THE MAIN
> > REASONS I LIKE THE C BASED LANGUAGES.
>
> What I really hate is when leftist agitators insert political messages
> into their scripts. It's hard to figure out what exactly does
> $FREE_Leonard_Peltier_and_end_abuse_and_repression_of_indigenous_peoples_NOW
> contain.
Good call.. Almost makes me want to go out and re-educate someone.
Something else that sends a shiver down my spine is cutesy, zany
variable names.
http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2004/05/illmonikered_variables_and_cre.html
Check out the comments! Some java programmer out there called a
BufferedOutputStream buffy then went a step further and named a
variable angel....
Tim Hunt
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