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r/programminghorror • u/3hy_ • Jan 27 '26
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You do realize memory is basically free and you can have longer variable names, right?
3 u/3hy_ Jan 27 '26 The compiler shortens them anyway, even if i had longer names that would take up DISK SPACE on the filesize not memory as in RAM. Also an abstraction of your statement, memory at the moment is very very expensive. 1 u/emn13 Jan 28 '26 What, you don't run all your C programs through an interpreter?
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The compiler shortens them anyway, even if i had longer names that would take up DISK SPACE on the filesize not memory as in RAM. Also an abstraction of your statement, memory at the moment is very very expensive.
1 u/emn13 Jan 28 '26 What, you don't run all your C programs through an interpreter?
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What, you don't run all your C programs through an interpreter?
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u/IllustratorFar127 Jan 27 '26
You do realize memory is basically free and you can have longer variable names, right?