Variable names should be "self defining" meaning you should be able to understand what its doing from the name. The name also shouldn't be too long. Combining those together makes it difficult to come up with an "elegant" name

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think they got the joke, they were just joking about how this is common in math :P

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

The most atrocious variable names I ever encountered in code were as a research assistant for a math professor doing game theory simulations. Literally unreadable unless you had a copy of his paper on the subject to refer to

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

tmp3 = tmp1 + tmp2 ; T.T