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[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If it has three letter variables, chances are it was also written by someone that doesn't want to code either

[–] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's so old that it was for purposes of saving memory.

[–] Patches@ttrpg.network 3 points 6 days ago

Back when optimization was Black Magic. Now we just tell the customers they need better hardware.

Someone probably had to argue hard to get 3 letter variables. Guarantee there was some one arguing for 1 letter variables.