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>Three-letter variable names. You're giving me flashbacks to all the SAS code I inherited. The tables had three-letter names like "AAA" and "BBB", and all the
by vharuck 2y ago
>Three-letter variable names.
You're giving me flashbacks to all the SAS code I inherited. The tables had three-letter names like "AAA" and "BBB", and all the columns had single-letter names. Wasn't long before I completely rewrote the entire thing (a couple times, because I wrote junk, too).
- jprete 2y agoWhen I hear stories of programmers who put a moat around their jobs with incomprehensible code, I usually assume it's exaggerated, but in your case I wonder if that's exactly what happened.