Serious question. We had a perfectly serviceable word, yet everyone decided to shift. Is it just that it’s shorter to type?

If so, I feel for your colleagues trying to parse your code when all your variables use abbreviations.

  • James R Kirk@startrek.website
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    13 days ago

    This is a guess but I feel like it was around the time that most coding was done for things that weren’t explicitly “programs”, like web design CSS/Java and smartphone “apps”.