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Sometimes I don't know whether to be proud of or disappointed in our species.
by saalweachter 7y ago
Sometimes I don't know whether to be proud of or disappointed in our species.
- eigenloss 7y agoYeah, it's not like any programmers have ever come up with bizzare and useless names for abstractions.
- najarvg 7y agoClearly OT but the excessive reliance on foo and bar in many of my early C lang learning examples really slowed down my ability to transfer said techniques into something meaningful. Eventually one of my friends working in the Visual C++ team (I'm dating myself here) explained the connection of foo and bar to fubar and kind of felt like this!
- eigenloss 7y agoI had the same experience; that's mostly what I'm referencing. Trying to use things like The Hacker's Dictionary (largely in-jokes, bad jargon, and obnoxious circular definitions) to clear it up made the problem worse. I get that it's just a humor book, but still.