Most Creative Variable Name
I was chatting with one of the consultants at work who complimented me on a particularly creative variable name. I appreciated the comment; I appreciated even more a chance to share the absuridity of what I do. For writing that has an audience of only a couple of dozen readers ever, some programmers will rail for hours over naming conventions. For me, the odd, non-standard variable name is more like a monk’s marginalia in a manuscript. Programmers spend hours transcribing requirements from their masters’ business-speak Greek into the current Latin of software development - Java. The temptation to draw a picture of an ass in a bishop’s miter is still too great.
And I can’t reveal the variable name since it now is a part of my employer’s sourcecode.
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