On 31 May 2013 10:00, Peter Williams <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 31/05/13 05:07, Walter Bright wrote:
>
>> On 5/30/2013 4:24 AM, Manu wrote:
>>
>>> We don't all know English. Plenty of people don't.
>>> I've worked a lot with Sony and Nintendo code/libraries, for instance,
>>> it almost
>>> always looks like this:
>>>
>>> {
>>> // E: I like cake.
>>> // J: ケーキが好きです。
>>> player.eatCake();
>>> }
>>>
>>> Clearly someone doesn't speak English in these massive codebases that
>>> power an
>>> industry worth 10s of billions.
>>>
>>
>> Sure, but the code itself is written using ASCII!
>>
>
> Because they had no choice.
Indeed, and believe me, the variable names can often make NO sense, or
worse, they're misunderstood and quite misleading.
Ie, you think a variable is something, but you realise it's the inverse, or
just something completely different.
