It always makes me smile that lispers use the term "earmuffs" to refer to variables named *foo*.
https://lisp-lang.org/style-guide/#variables
As far as I'm aware this particular name isn't used in other communities. Paired * is rare elsewhere, but lisp programmers are no stranger to paired syntax!
miniblog.
Related Posts
Apparently FizzBuzz is a spelling used by programmers, and it's "Fizz Buzz" in other contexts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fizz_buzz
Perhaps programmers favour camel case more often?
Generated Code Generates Overconfident Coders: https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-180/
A study of programmers found that using a LLM for completion produced buggier code but users were more confident in it.
I wonder if this generalises to other completion techniques?
Shower thought: presumably keyword length affects naming habits? Are programmers more willing to write verboseFunctionName if the keyword is `fn` rather than `function`?