7 worst words in code

7 worst words in code

Here are the candidates for the top 7 worst verbs used in function names. I don%u2019t know if programmers invented these, but whoever did was one evil dude.

Ok I have done some of these, but I do tend to steer away from them more and more. Sometimes I wonder if because I started coding in the day of x,y,a,b,i,j as the variable style that I relish just a little too much in verbosity of methods and naming…

2 thoughts on “7 worst words in code

  1. uhhh, oops, populate can be found in a lot of code I wrote in 1982-1988

    perform comes from the COBOL scmoes ;-) similar to “do”

    8)

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