Programming isn't hard...
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Dijkstra didn't have to debug an option valuation model written in C++ by a math PhD... True story... Almost every variable in the Black-Scholes calculation was one or two letters long, and none of them had any relevance to what they represented. Don't get me wrong... It (mostly) worked, and it was fast, but... Ow, my eyes!
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
Author of the Guardians Saga (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels)When Black and Scholes were figuring out how to value options, though, they probably were using one- and two-letter variable names, and they ended up winning the Nobel Prize. Maybe the difference is that people don't have to "maintain" mathematics. There was a movie where Leo DiCaprio (or maybe Matt Damon?) was a maintenance man who did mathematics... but that's a different story. :-D
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When Black and Scholes were figuring out how to value options, though, they probably were using one- and two-letter variable names, and they ended up winning the Nobel Prize. Maybe the difference is that people don't have to "maintain" mathematics. There was a movie where Leo DiCaprio (or maybe Matt Damon?) was a maintenance man who did mathematics... but that's a different story. :-D
_beauw_ wrote:
There was a movie where Leo DiCaprio (or maybe Matt Damon?) was a maintenance man who did mathematics...
I believe you are refering to Good Will Hunting[^] and it stared Matt Damon.
Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet.
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Thinking of names for your classes and variables, THAT's hard... :doh: Frustration #1 of the evening... :sigh:
It's an OO world.
public class Naerling : Lazy<Person>{}
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Tenagra t = new Tenagra();
t.Add(new Darmok());
t.Add(new Jilad());
t.Add(new TheBeast());
t.EpicBattle();
t.MoveItemsTo(new Ocean());Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
Author of the Guardians Saga (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels)Ian Shlasko wrote:
Tenagra t = new Tenagra(); t.Add(new Darmok()); t.Add(new Jilad()); t.Add(new TheBeast()); t.EpicBattle(); t.MoveItemsTo(new Ocean());
Congratulations, this is the nerdiest thing I have read this month, on many levels. And considering the crap I read, that was an achievement.
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Ian Shlasko wrote:
Tenagra t = new Tenagra(); t.Add(new Darmok()); t.Add(new Jilad()); t.Add(new TheBeast()); t.EpicBattle(); t.MoveItemsTo(new Ocean());
Congratulations, this is the nerdiest thing I have read this month, on many levels. And considering the crap I read, that was an achievement.
I blame Netflix, for having the entire Star Trek franchise available for streaming :)
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
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Thinking of names for your classes and variables, THAT's hard... :doh: Frustration #1 of the evening... :sigh:
It's an OO world.
public class Naerling : Lazy<Person>{}
Naerling wrote:
Thinking of names for your classes and variables,
I don't use anything under 80 characters in length. I try to name it and describe it all in one name. I also have a tendency to give it a feminine or masculine slant depending on what kind of work these objects are doing...names usually ending in either "ita" or "ito".
Just along for the ride. "the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
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Naerling wrote:
Thinking of names for your classes and variables, THAT's hard... :doh:
Frustration #1 of the evening... :sigh:I solve this by using a single
Objectvariable calledtheKeyacross my entire project. I assign all local references to this variable and cast to the required derived type before calling a method or property. On occasions I may need two or even three such variables (I suffix 1,2,3 to gettheKey1and so on). Problem solved. :-\Regards, Nish
My technology blog: voidnish.wordpress.com
I'm going to drive up to Dublin and hurt you now. I'll see you in an hour.
Software Zen:
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I prefer to call all my variables a1, a2, a3, a4, and so on. Also, once I get to a6, I use another letter (say, b1)... that way, I only ever have to use my left hand and can keep my right hand on the mouse. It's a very efficient technique I wish everybody else would adopt. Until then, I just refactor all the code I see with overly long variable names like "count" (that's a particularly bad name because some of the characters require the right hand to type). I sleep easily at night, comfortable in the knowledge that all my refactoring has made the world a better place. :-\
Somebody in an online forum wrote:
INTJs never really joke. They make a point. The joke is just a gift wrapper.
This is a particularly stupid tip and would never work. Apart from the fact that it would require superhuman mental gymnastics, once you have more than 42 variables, in order to maintain alphabetic ordering, it is yet another invidious ploy by the militant fundamentalist wing of the ASL (Anti-Southpaw League). Please remember that The Lounge is no place for these religious outpourings.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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I'm going to drive up to Dublin and hurt you now. I'll see you in an hour.
Software Zen:
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_beauw_ wrote:
There was a movie where Leo DiCaprio (or maybe Matt Damon?) was a maintenance man who did mathematics...
I believe you are refering to Good Will Hunting[^] and it stared Matt Damon.
Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet.
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This is a particularly stupid tip and would never work. Apart from the fact that it would require superhuman mental gymnastics, once you have more than 42 variables, in order to maintain alphabetic ordering, it is yet another invidious ploy by the militant fundamentalist wing of the ASL (Anti-Southpaw League). Please remember that The Lounge is no place for these religious outpourings.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
The obvious solution is to use a YTREWQ keyboard.
Somebody in an online forum wrote:
INTJs never really joke. They make a point. The joke is just a gift wrapper.
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Naerling wrote:
Thinking of names for your classes and variables, THAT's hard... :doh:
Frustration #1 of the evening... :sigh:I solve this by using a single
Objectvariable calledtheKeyacross my entire project. I assign all local references to this variable and cast to the required derived type before calling a method or property. On occasions I may need two or even three such variables (I suffix 1,2,3 to gettheKey1and so on). Problem solved. :-\Regards, Nish
My technology blog: voidnish.wordpress.com
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You could use an array or a list to make the solution more flexible. Then you have
theKey[0],theKey[1], ...Greetings - Jacek
I would also allocate it right away with 640,000 elements (that ought to be enough for anybody).
Somebody in an online forum wrote:
INTJs never really joke. They make a point. The joke is just a gift wrapper.
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OriginalGriff wrote:
Star Fleet don't seem to have any truck with H&S legislation, or they wouldn't fill all the computer consoles with semtex...
Yeah, I always wondered why it was that they could manage matter-energy conversion, subspace communication, and warp drive... But couldn't seem to figure out how to make a surge protector or... *gasp*... a FUSE!
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
Author of the Guardians Saga (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels) -
I just went for
item. And yes, it is to remain abstract. It is an Interface Method that has a T (as in generic) as a parameter. That is the reason I did not want to go forobj. Because the parameter is of type T, which is more specific than an Object.It's an OO world.
public class Naerling : Lazy<Person>{}
void DoSomethingGeneric(T t){ ... } If it's just any T, with no further restrictions, the fact it is a 'T' is the only thing that identifies it, so I'd call it 't'. The fact that it's a T that something is done with should be clear from the method name.
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This is a particularly stupid tip and would never work. Apart from the fact that it would require superhuman mental gymnastics, once you have more than 42 variables, in order to maintain alphabetic ordering, it is yet another invidious ploy by the militant fundamentalist wing of the ASL (Anti-Southpaw League). Please remember that The Lounge is no place for these religious outpourings.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
I agree. Since all the syntactic characters are on the other side of the keyboard (parens, braces, semicolon, equals and single quote; double quote too for Americans), clearly variable names ought to use exclusively the right side of the keyboard (p0, p9, p8, ... p5, o0, ... etc).
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Thinking of names for your classes and variables, THAT's hard... :doh: Frustration #1 of the evening... :sigh:
It's an OO world.
public class Naerling : Lazy<Person>{}
it's easy when you coding some useless crap, real programming never was easy and will never be :~
d{^__^}b - it's time to fly
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it's easy when you coding some useless crap, real programming never was easy and will never be :~
d{^__^}b - it's time to fly
It's called irony :)
It's an OO world.
public class Naerling : Lazy<Person>{}
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When Black and Scholes were figuring out how to value options, though, they probably were using one- and two-letter variable names, and they ended up winning the Nobel Prize. Maybe the difference is that people don't have to "maintain" mathematics. There was a movie where Leo DiCaprio (or maybe Matt Damon?) was a maintenance man who did mathematics... but that's a different story. :-D
I always get those two mixed up, made watching The Departed very difficult to begin with :)
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Dijkstra didn't have to debug an option valuation model written in C++ by a math PhD... True story... Almost every variable in the Black-Scholes calculation was one or two letters long, and none of them had any relevance to what they represented. Don't get me wrong... It (mostly) worked, and it was fast, but... Ow, my eyes!
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
Author of the Guardians Saga (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels)I know what you mean - my colleague (who writes the B-S module for his option pricing program (which I maintain)) loves names like henry, peter, peterp, peter2 etc - I'm just glad I don't have to work on that bit of code. I used to employ a programmer who was very good, and very hard working, but he never used any kind of meaningful names for anything, so a complex C function representing, say, a vector drawing interpreter, would contain tens of variables named a,aa,aaa,aaa, x,xx,xxx,xxxx, i,ii,iii,iiii,iiiii and so forth... 8)
