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Math people shouldn't be allowed to write code. It's not the unicode, so much as the extremely terse variable names.

• perching_aix 1y ago
  Isn't that basically all C/C++ code? Admittedly I don't have much exposure to it, but it's pretty much a trope in and of itself, along with Java and C# suffering from the opposite problem. Such a silly issue too, you'd think we'd have come up with some automated wrangling for this, so that those experienced with a codebase can switch over and see super short versions of identifiers, while people new to it all will see the long stuff.
  • flohofwoe 1y ago
    > Isn't that basically all C/C++ code? Maybe for code that was written in the early 90's, but the only 'tradition' that has survived is calling the vanilla loop variable 'i'.