This has likely been done intentionally for humour’s sake, but take a look at some of the names in Apple’s AppKit framework, like https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appkit/nspreviewrepresentingactivityitem
I’m still annoyed with how verbose Objective-C is. Just check out what one has to do to create and concatenate a string. Madness:
NSString * test = [[NSString alloc] initWithString:@"This is a test string."]; NSString * test2 = [test stringByAppendingString:@" This value is appended."];And god forbid you want to concatenate two things to a string:
NSString * test3 = [test1 stringByAppendingString:[test2 stringByAppendingString:@" Adding a third value."]];
My ASDV professor has two moods: He either names variables like this post, Or he names variables
pp(for pointer pointer)Fuck for some reason
ppis giving me flashbacks to having to write using Hungarian notation variable names.
ThisCommentsMakeItSoThatYouHateMeForWritingLikeThisSeriouslyICanNotStopPleaseSendHelp
Would you like a snake to replace your camel?
Careful, Pascal doesn’t like it when you call him a camel
I decided to be wrong because the correct joke would be too convoluted. I’ll work on that implementation and then you can inject it at runtime via reflection.
Thanks for preparing your comment for my dependency injection! I agree that refactorability of comments is preferable over prematurely optimizing for performance.
I can read that without any issues whatsoever.
But. If. You. Put. Periods. Between. Each. Word. My brain will force a pause between every single one and I can’t override it.
It’s an unwritten rule that there‘s always a fitting xkcd post
Self-documenting code, high contrast… Carry on.
Probably still better than bool a; bool b; int c;…
But i, i is sacred.
Obviously, we can’t allow code like that - PascalCase is heresy… camelCase that shit.
snake_case gang represent
Hey, this must be that self-documenting code I keep hearing about
Yea this looks productive.
Imagine how useless the LSP suggestions are.
Why not leave comments
What about this?
I’d ask what I’m looking at here but feel I might regret it
In Oct’23 a basic Text widget with Subprocess to run shell commands allowed me to take my command line fu into a different arena because Tkinter gave me special tricks. This tool (shell functions) allows me to type up GUI apps or any Python script with less effort, for my fingers and brain.
wc newide; ksh newide | wc
513 1671 11018 newide in pnk
604 1987 29867 newide in python
The blocks of color are capital letters colored using tkinter methods (tag_add & tag_configure) with a bg and fg of the same color to make it look like a lego block, it’s all ASCII. On the right, an idle clicker game/toy made with pnk.lang, also just ASCII/UTF-8. The IDE you see in the pic also was coded using functional shell language I call pnk.lang and the original first iteration of this specification is in the legacy folder in the repo below. Just me learning how to code faster in Python but in shell but in neither at this point.
https://github.com/dislux-hapfyl/pynksh
Don’t be put off by Ksh because Bash can also interpret it, since it’s just shell functions that print Python code. But I have plans to use an Xbox controller so I can move away from building with the keyboard at piecemeal rates. I will do this by abstracting away identifiers and all data we use as engineers into “dictionaries” to then transform it into a spatial system. I already done this first step! Using a basic grid with a maximum of 10 rows x 3 cols, indexing row[0-9] col[0-2], as you see there on the left side, and by using a letter I then categorize the functions of pnk(shell+python) so I can have 30 x 26[a-z] available slots; a00 b11 k22 and so on…by making it a visual shortcut that reduces cognitive load and typing for me.
Take a closer look at my repo without dismissing it too quickly. It could seem unnecessary but maybe someone else can see what I have made as useful and how we gonna take it to higher levels of abstraction and create a new realm for making computer applications in an abstract game/IDE of art and code. Perhaps it’s that creator effect that happens when you make something for the first time that makes me see its future utility and appeal. All this was made incrementally using my own software I built from scratch. I do have a great vision and would love to speak to anyone who is interested. I also demonstrate the utility of this small tool on youtube[link in repo]. Thanks.
I’m somehow more confused
Leaning to program on 8-bit machines with 8k of RAM means that even today I abbreviate names.
Plus it was accepted wisdom that shorter variable names were faster for the BASIC interpreter.
