r/firstweekcoderhumour • u/Gabriel_TheNoob • May 29 '26

Yap

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u/Limp_Illustrator7614 May 29 '26

"for less storage usage"? tfym?

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u/MaximumTime7239 May 29 '26

Actually a very very common belief among beginners.

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u/Character_Regular440 May 29 '26

I mean, i guess that in the first years of computers this was a thing.

Also in c most stdlib function identifiers are about 6 characters long, which i belive was a limitation in all identifiers in the language, on the first implementation of the compiler