say what you want about the first gen transistor age computer engineers, they weren't spergs and did a good job designing and naming things so they made sense
the ones who came later, though
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nostr:npub15fkerqqyp9mlh7n8xd6d5k9s27etuvaarvnp2vqed83dw9c603pqs5j9gr I work with a pretty high level engineer who started in the 80s and 90s. He carried over a lot of his old-timey tricks into our code. Some of it, like using printf, makes no sense anymore and is quite dangerous. Some of it is absolutely gold though. There's a lot of architectures he introduced that are shockingly simple but do way more than you'd expect and run retardedly fast.