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Sos Sosowski

Some of my favourite bits from MS-DOS 4.0 sources in C:

1. Cursed Pascal
2. Witty boolean
3. Variable hell
4. Very clean and readable function names

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Alfred R. Baudisch

@sos love long, descriptive function names.

I am one who write very long names and with that I can come back to the code 10 years later and still understand it at first glance.

As a matter of fact, I was dealing with two such cases at work at this very second (Elixir code):

26 April at 9:41 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place

Ark 🏳️‍⚧️

@alfredbaudisch @sos elixir must be designed to make you do this. this one constantly writes really long variable names

26 April at 10:13 | Open on tech.lgbt

Alfred R. Baudisch

@ark_lamp_umbrella @sos It's unrelated to the language, it's personal preference. General Elixir code bases are not like that, they are actually very concise.

I do that in all languages, last year I did a lot of C# and also have VERY long function names. Likewise with GDScript (Godot). Two open-source examples from me: https://github.com/alfredbaudisch/GodotDynamicInventorySystem/blob/master/Scripts/Data/Entities/EntityPlayer.gd#L36 and https://github.com/alfredbaudisch/GodotDynamicInventorySystem/blob/master/Scripts/GameState.gd#L69 (well, even the repository name is long in this case).

Or like sos's MS DOS example, that's in C.

@ark_lamp_umbrella @sos It's unrelated to the language, it's personal preference. General Elixir code bases are not like that, they are actually very concise.

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26 April at 10:16 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place

Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

@sos Heh, those defines reminds me of the original bourne shell.
https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V7/usr/src/cmd/sh/mac.h

26 April at 9:46 | Open on queer.hacktivis.me

Speaktrap

@sos 1st is my favourite

26 April at 9:51 | Open on mastodon.social

Robert Kist 🇦🇹 🇸🇬

@sos at least it's Pascal and not Cobol

26 April at 9:56 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place

Wolf480pl

@sos lol looks like the last one is passing return values through global variables, as if it's a shell script, not a C program

26 April at 10:04 | Open on mstdn.io

Sos Sosowski

@wolf480pl @sos a lot of them are passing values via registers exposed as structs too

26 April at 10:21 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place

Yaksh Bariya

@sos wait really, lol. So the meme is atleast somewhat true :)

26 April at 10:04 | Open on mastodon.social

Felix Urbasik

@sos Someone really didn't like C, huh?

26 April at 10:22 | Open on ma.fellr.net

Emil Oppeln-Bronikowski

@sos did they used BEGIN and END in every block, or just functions?

while(1) 
 BEGIN
  derp();
 END

etc?

26 April at 10:31 | Open on helo.fuse.pl

Sos Sosowski

@emil @sos EVERYWHERE

26 April at 12:47 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place

Emil Oppeln-Bronikowski

@sos leon_everyone.gif

26 April at 13:43 | Open on helo.fuse.pl

Konrad Kołakowski

@sos I've heard that in early C compilers, variables had some length limitation in case of names 🤔 Also it could be some programmer habit left from earlier languages like BASIC 😉

26 April at 10:39 | Open on mastodon.social

Sos Sosowski

@kkolakowski @sos They were shit slow and would go much faster if you kept to shorter names back then for sure.

26 April at 12:47 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place

Johan Sköld

@kkolakowski @sos Reminded me of early PHP that used the length as the hash function for the global function table, so they picked function names based on how long they were to reduce collisions.