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. Autocomplete won't help you because both variables exist.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 6 months ago (3 children)

He did write some Fortran in his past! What made you think it was Fortran influence?

[–] [email protected] 69 points 6 months ago

72 characters per line/card.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I'd say because fortran is often used for calculations such as numerical analysis where you have x, y and z for example.

I have written fortran code in the past and it was mainly for that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Your first few programming languages usually influence you the most for the rest of your career.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago

And you can write more than six characters, but only the first six are recognized. So APFLWSAC and APFLWSAF are really the same variable.

And without namespaces, company policy reserves the first two characters for module prefix and Hungarian notation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

And the rest of you are COBOL programmers.