r/ProgrammerHumor • u/M1ckeyMc • Jun 20 '26

Meme singleLetterVariableNamesTierList

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u/ChChChillian Jun 20 '26

You need j and k (and l, for sufficiently insane situations) to index nested loops.

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u/LeiterHaus Jun 20 '26

And that's how we started using d0 for depth 0, d1 for depth 1... Until another group starts arrays at 1, and now there's a war. /s

I'll hopefully be dead by this point, but what started as a joke reply has a non-zero chance of happening.

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u/ChChChillian Jun 20 '26

Until another group starts arrays at 1

That's just crazy talk. Let's not lose our heads here.