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TheBeardedOne
2y

Found this line in code that's been in prod for 10 years

"int kak = object.getValue()"

There is no contextual reason for it to be called kak, which means shit in Afrikaans

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afrikaans

dutch-lite

legacy code

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  • 2
    2y
    also in Dutch

    I use "poep" all the time in my code for testing purposes.
  • 1
    2y
    @d00td00t yea they're quite similar. I often refer to Afrikaans as Dutch-Lite
  • 0
    2y
    Cool
  • 1
    2y
    Ppl who name variables in anything else than English are retarded
    And I say that as a non-native English speaker
  • 0
    2y
    @dissolvedgirl go stalk my profile. I've posted a couple of "South African proverbs"
  • 0
    2y
    @devRancid I hate it much more when it's in my mother tongue than when it's in third languages. Inferring from context is easier than reading hacker créoles, but I can't choose not to interpret Hungarian words.
  • 0
    2y
    @dissolvedgirl what was the stack?
  • 0
    2y
    @dissolvedgirl damn no kidding when you said legacy
  • 0
    2y
    @Lucky-Loek Delphi was legacy before it was even created
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