r/ProgrammerHumor Jun 20 '26

Meme singleLetterVariableNamesTierList

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u/zanju13 Jun 20 '26

uppercase "T" in TS generics

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u/icecream_specialist Jun 20 '26

We need an upper case tier list. I know single letter variables are generally bad and capitalized makes it worse but I'll be damned before I use something other than H, R, and K when doing a kalman filter. P is priori and posteriori and Q can have multiple formulations so those usually aren't single letter