DEV Community

Discussion on: Which mainstream programming language has the ugliest syntax?

 
chrisvasqm profile image
Christian Vasquez • Edited

Then we should use f because "un" would just add a few more characters 🤔.

I think there's a fine line between short and too short.

Thread Thread
 
alainvanhout profile image
Alain Van Hout

There's a reason why we don't all prefer our Shakespeare or our technical documentation in SMS/text speak :).

Thread Thread
 
juhohame profile image
Juho Häme

Writing code Shakespeare style would be awful.

Thread Thread
 
awwsmm profile image
Andrew (he/him)

f already stands for function in mathematics:

y = f(x)
Thread Thread
 
hrmny profile image
Leah

it's just what you start with, the next one would be g(x)