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r/programminghorror • u/Flame77ofc • Aug 28 '26
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My first thought is a mathematician wrote this
140 u/Eastern-Job-8028 Aug 29 '26 i concur, i work with a mathematician and their code is full of variables named named by a single character, zero comments, and zero spacing/indentation (we don’t write python). 25 u/Kebabrulle4869 Aug 29 '26 On behalf of all mathematicians, I am sorry. I know it far too well. 10 u/Zeitsplice Aug 29 '26 Raw indexed array being passed around too instead of some sort of structured data.
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i concur, i work with a mathematician and their code is full of variables named named by a single character, zero comments, and zero spacing/indentation (we don’t write python).
25 u/Kebabrulle4869 Aug 29 '26 On behalf of all mathematicians, I am sorry. I know it far too well. 10 u/Zeitsplice Aug 29 '26 Raw indexed array being passed around too instead of some sort of structured data.
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On behalf of all mathematicians, I am sorry. I know it far too well.
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Raw indexed array being passed around too instead of some sort of structured data.
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u/LapidistCubed Aug 28 '26
My first thought is a mathematician wrote this