Comments on: Explaining IT geeks for normal people: naming stuff

By: Nathan

Nathan — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 02:19:20 +0000

yeah, calling everything var1, var2 etc..

There’s the guide to writing unmaintainable code which recommends things like “use a baby names book opened at random for variable names”.

My personal peeve though is inconsistency.. MyVariable then theStrPtr or myID and myOtherId.. Or worse: a mix of underscores and camel case.

By: Faz

Faz — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:23:07 +0000

In programmers, there’s the kind that names their variables sequentially.. *shudder*

String name = getString(“firstName”);
String name1 = getString(“lastName”);

gaahh!!!!

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