From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Feb 16 19:48:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA19485 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 19:48:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.119.24.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA19463 for ; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 19:47:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [194.198.43.36]) by ns1.yes.no (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id DAA00220; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 03:47:45 GMT Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) id EAA12441; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 04:47:45 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19980217044736.38588@follo.net> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 04:47:36 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund To: ac199@hwcn.org Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Good Times Virus (not Fwd: :) References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Tim Vanderhoek on Mon, Feb 16, 1998 at 10:17:55PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > OPTIMIZATION: the process of using many one-letter variables names > hoping that the resultant code will run faster. One of my previous co-workers protested (seriously, not as a joke) against a proposed code-standard on the basis that using long identifiers would make the code take longer to compile. To quote Dave Barry: "And I'm not making this up!" Eivind, who was just astonished to hear that said person had been promoted to 'Technical Manager' just after he left the company. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message