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[โ€“] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Now I want to become a programmer so I can give variables people names.

[โ€“] trolololol@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

Ha

You should hear of the method of pretending you're at breakfast or some other anthropomorphized situation, where you name things as butter and cheese, knife and bread, tea and teapot

Then there's Hungarian notation which is actually used seriously. But I can't give an entertaining example only s boring and probably inaccurate one.