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I found it also helps with the hardest problem in software development: naming things. Without knowledge of the theory it can be hard to come up with a descrip

I found it also helps with the hardest problem in software development: naming things. Without knowledge of the theory it can be hard to come up with a descriptive name for some data structure/algorithm you created to solve your problem. With some knowledge of the theory you can more easily put a name to what you have created, making it easier for other people to understand and giving them something to Google if they're unfamiliar.

m463 6y ago
But loop variables are always i, j and k.
- anthk 6y ago
  Except in EE.
- noir_lord 6y ago
  n for me for a long time but that’s BASIC showing through. > It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.” - Edsger Dijkstra
  - m463 6y ago
    He just couldn't imagine a proper language like Perl where you didn't even NEED a loop variable... foreach (@lines) { next if /^$/; ...
    - hnick 6y ago
      You can even change the foreach to for if you seek more brevity in your Perl life (don't we all?).
commandlinefan 6y ago
> naming things There are two hard problems in computer science: naming things, cache invalidation, and off-by-one errors.
- nanomonkey 6y ago
  >> naming things >There are two hard problems in computer science: naming concurrency >things, cache invalidation, and off-by-one errors.
danielscrubs 6y ago
What’s wrong with FactoryProducerProxy? /jk