When Variable Names Get Lost In Translation

Code review Naming conventions Variable naming Function names Cultural differences Lost in translation Embarrassing code International programming

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When Variable Names Get Lost In Translation

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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.

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