The easiest problem - tchncs

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I worked with a developer who insisted on using the shortest names possible. God I hated debugging his code.

I’m talking variable names like AAxynj. Everything looking like matrix math.

Ah, must’ve been a fortran developer. I swear they have this ability to make the shortest yet the least memorable variable names. E.g. was the variable called APFLWS or APFLWD? Impossible to remember without going back and forth to recheck the definition.
He did write some Fortran in his past! What made you think it was Fortran influence?
72 characters per line/card.
I’d say because fortran is often used for calculations
Your first few programming languages usually influence you the most for the rest of your career.