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I inherited a codebase like this, from a developer coding in their native language. Function names or variables started with a typo, and they just carried on wi
by zbuf 4y ago
I inherited a codebase like this, from a developer coding in their native language. Function names or variables started with a typo, and they just carried on with tab/auto completion from then on.
By the time I arrived the damage was wide and it was easier to leave it consistently wrong than try and fix across several codebases.