Very nice. I once got a task to rewrite or migrate
some programs which originated in Poland; they were
full of polish variable names. This was very hard because
I had no idea what that variables meant ...
I remember KONIEC, which, IIRC, means end-of-file :-)
after a week or so, I understood at least some polish words,
the word for counter etc. (which I forgot).
This first gave me an idea how important natural language is
for the understanding of source code (even if there are
no comments).
Kind regards
Bernd
Am 08.01.2019 um 21:19 schrieb Tony Thigpen:
FYI, I also put REXX into that category if someone tries to be
'fancy'. And I use REXX a lot.
I remember a programmer, back in '81, that was told that he could no
longer use RPG, but must use COBOL. He was upset so started using
Spanish variable names. This was not California, but was North
Alabama, where few spoke it. (Yes, management did catch him after a
month or so.)
Tony Thigpen
Pew, Curtis G wrote on 1/8/19 3:05 PM:
On Jan 8, 2019, at 2:03 PM, Tony Thigpen <[email protected]> wrote:
"C is the first write-once, read-never language."
Not even close; APL was around nearly a decade before C.
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