• IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Many years ago I had to try to debug a memory manager written by a really talented software engineer, with an interesting take on naming things…

    • He referred to blocks of memory as “cookies”.

    • He had a temporary variable named “handy” because it was handy to have around.

    • He had a second temporary variable that referenced the first one that he called “son_of_handy”.

    • If corruption was detected in a block of memory then it would set the flag “shit_cookie_corrupt”.

    • If too many cookies were corrupt then the system would halt by calling the function “oh_shit_oh_shit_oh_shit”.