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I think that people who've been repeatedly exposed to C code written by people who gave everything not particularly well chosen one-letter names end up allergic
by mst 5y ago
I think that people who've been repeatedly exposed to C code written by people who gave everything not particularly well chosen one-letter names end up allergic to them just in general.
Given in this specific case the reader (of the article rather than the comment you're replying to) already has the context that it's an interpreter implementation, the meaning of run() was immediately obvious to me, but if I'd missed that sentence in the article I suspect I'd've reacted rather differently.
- akkartik 5y agoOne theme of this post -- and my site in general -- is that blog posts are a poor use case to optimize code for. I'd love for you to `git clone` the repo mentioned here and try reading it with your usual editor and so on. That's the habitat my code is really intended for.
- mst 5y agoI have the wart repo cloned into ~/tmp now and am quite fascinated at my first look but haven't dug into it enough to form any actual opinions. I might remember to email you later but if there's somewhere on IRC you're usually connected to telling me where that is will significantly increase the odds of my actually getting around to providing feedback if you'd like that.
- akkartik 5y ago<3 Yes please, I'm on akkartik on irc.esper.net, irc.libera.chat and irc.tilde.chat. More options: http://akkartik.name/contact http://akkartik.name/contact