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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 11 points 5 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] GaveUp@hexbear.net 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

maddened

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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

[–] CupcakeOfSpice@hexbear.net 4 points 4 days ago
#include <cstd.h>

using namespace std;