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[kyra_ojosverdes]

It is my fervent opinion that more coder-types should include "Hoon de hoon, bork bork bork" in their code.

That is all.

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[nephthys510.livejournal.com]

that assumes that the comment their code in the first place.

one could do it in variable names

[andreas_schaefer]

stuff like $idontcare (in German $istmirdochegal which an acquaintance actually used).
I can just see it: define bork_bork_bork vector (0,1,7);

I confess to naming a trio of variables Hewey , Lewey & Dewey ( actually their German names of Tick, Trick and Track ) though not in production code.

As you see, there is no need to mar perfect code with ungainly comments.

Re: one could do it in variable names

[kyra-ojosverdes.livejournal.com]

I'm currently using variable names like vaAnal and vaStupidity in my VB project.

:-D

Re: one could do it in variable names

[kyra-ojosverdes.livejournal.com]

I'm currently using variable names like vaAnal and vaStupidity in my VB project.

Re: one could do it in variable names

[smoonn.livejournal.com]

Last year a couple of friends from Germany asked me the names of Donald Duck's nephews, and thought I was making them up... not the names, but the fact that they're all spelled differently. :)

Huey, Dewey and Louie.

English is a crazy language.

Re: one could do it in variable names

[andreas_schaefer]

I stand corrected - I copied those from a google hit but did not check for spelling on a Disney site. As to English spelling being weird - yes. I suspect that derives from the various sources modrern English comes from -I remember someone telling me that Knight used to be spoken Knicht ( with sopen k and a somewhat guttural ch which makes it related to German Knecht [~servant] and the spelling reasonable).
http://alt-usage-english.org/excerpts/fxwhat04.html

Re: one could do it in variable names

[smoonn.livejournal.com]

Yes, the modern English is definitely a mutt of a language, with its French, German and Spanish influences. I'm sure you'd find Swahili in there too, if Africa had invaded and/or intermarried into the UK peoples. :)

Re: one could do it in variable names

[nephthys510.livejournal.com]

hahaha

thank you for pointing that out

[kyra-ojosverdes.livejournal.com]

True.

I'll amend my statement to say that more coder-types should, in their well-commented code, include the phrase "hoon de hoon, bork bork bork."

[samvimes.livejournal.com]

Those of us from the XP school of thought don't use no comments.

But we do write tests, and tests need test data.

I shall be sure to include more Borks therein. Thank you for your kind suggestion.

[marialuminous.livejournal.com]

A friend of mine has done some coding, and her codes include phrases like "I aint no dummy" "you betcha" and "Thank your mother". I like codes that make me laugh, even if I don't understand most of it.

[dimfuture.livejournal.com]

Hahah, you noticed that.

That is an outgrowth of my conversations where I ask "are we going to develop some language for this page?" and they say "oh we don't care."

Oh, we'll see how much you don't care.

I've also been known to put things in my comments like

// shit I'm too tired to deal with right now

// should do this in CSS-P instead of tables but fuck it

I even put some rather profane invective in the comments of a page shortly before I was laid off from the job, and it was embedded in the company's web site for probably over a year.

Ha Ha!

[shmuelisms.livejournal.com]

I've actually done shit like that myself. I especially like writing code like this:

yoMama = null

or leave messages for friends, in [the automatically generated] version-control generated header-comments. A friend once wrote "I need a Coke, SO badly." It was time-stamped something like 2am. ;-) While in the Army, one of the first things they taught us, was that it was explicitly forbidden to give variables names that where transliterated Hebrew (because, due to multiple "spelling" options, they would be VERY hard to read, and impossible to remember). So no variables called

int MisparReshuma, SkhumHamisparim; // RecordNum, SumOfNums

Just yesterday, I found the following in the [online] documentation for Java's official Unit-Test library: TestSuite:createTest method.

[tigermorph.livejournal.com]

I think REGULAR language should include more "hoon de hoon bork bork bork".

[annieover.livejournal.com]

I don't know about coding, but at suppertime we all run around throwing kitchen utensils and speaking like the Swedish Chef from the Muppet Show. No live chickens, yet.

[kyra-ojosverdes.livejournal.com]

Yet. It's a slippery slope, once you utter that first Hoon de hoon.