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Many years ago I had to try to debug a memory manager written by a really talented software engineer, with an interesting take on naming things…
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He referred to blocks of memory as “cookies”.
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He had a temporary variable named “handy” because it was handy to have around.
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He had a second temporary variable that referenced the first one that he called “son_of_handy”.
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If corruption was detected in a block of memory then it would set the flag “shit_cookie_corrupt”.
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If too many cookies were corrupt then the system would halt by calling the function “oh_shit_oh_shit_oh_shit”.
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I like him already
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To be honest I'd like to see his resume, kinda wanna hire him
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That was close to 30 years ago - a DOS memory manager written prior to Windows 3.0. He’s likely retired now…
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proposal to rename exit() to oh_shit_oh_shit_oh_shit()
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screw_you_guys_im_going_home()
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fuck_this_shit_im_outta_here()
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In the 90s there was a Redhat distro called Cartman.
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Red Hat 6.1, that was my first Linux distro.
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screw_you_im_gonna_go_play_minecraft()
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I will keep this legacy alive within my code
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Okay yeah but I know what all those variables do
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Ugh.
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Sounds like my type of guy.
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