When Variable Names Get Lost In Translation

When naming variables, cultural context matters more than you think. Some poor French programmer just trying to be descriptive with his data analysis functions - Anal_in, Anal_out, anal_insertion, and the masterpiece Anal_compare - accidentally created the most uncomfortable code review in CS history.

Ten years of coding experience and I still can't bring myself to abbreviate "Analysis" in my variable names. Not after The Incident™ of 2011 when our offshore team's perfectly innocent code made the entire San Francisco office spit out their kombucha simultaneously.