love ♥ gameMay 7, 2024
🐈 naming things is often called "the easiest problem in computer science" because you can just call it x or i or whatever
Show threadClifford AdamsMay 7, 2024
@lovegame
Everything started going downhill when we started using names like x and i instead of the old descriptive names of foo and bar.
Show threadMoz

@wikicliff @lovegame I preferred it when we just had blocks of memory and it was up to us to remember where each variable started, which ones were numbers and which were letters. And how big each one was. And the byte order.

This was so easy that even BASIC supported it with PEEK() and POKE().

May 7, 2024 at 10:59pmWeb