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Do they honestly expect me to believe that there wasn't a more appropriate way to abbreviate "cumulative maximum" than cummax? Imagine the headaches the inventor of the world's first Python powered sexbot will suffer when they realise that the method name cummin has already been taken.

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[-] Umechan@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago

Standard Python is guilty of this too. Who the fuck abbreviates "standard deviation" as std? At least Python's inventor has the excuse that he's Dutch.

[-] CupcakeOfSpice@hexbear.net 4 points 17 hours ago
#include <cstd.h>

using namespace std;
[-] GaveUp@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago

Python programmers when you make a symbol name longer than 5 characters

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[-] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

item = obj.get_item()

long long mv_NEW_API_ItemGetter_st = *IMPL_obj_ref->NEW_itemGetter_st()

Don't get me started on c++ name mangling

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