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Any Day Now (sh.itjust.works)

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[-] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

If it has three letter variables, chances are it was also written by someone that doesn't want to code either

[-] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

It's so old that it was for purposes of saving memory.

[-] Patches@ttrpg.network 3 points 9 months ago

Back when optimization was Black Magic. Now we just tell the customers they need better hardware.

Someone probably had to argue hard to get 3 letter variables. Guarantee there was some one arguing for 1 letter variables.

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