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Re: what "rep" might mean. It might mean "reply", as noted, but it might equally, in Europe, depending on which large European press agency we're talking about(1), mean "réponse" == "reply" in French.
(1) Specifically, I thought initially of Agence France Presse.
Addendum 2021-12-14 06:43: réponse is also a reasonable translation of English "response"
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It looks like the Count on Sesame Street was Hungarian nobility, eh? Maybe a cousin of Charles Simonyi, the dude who cooked up that notation?
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I think I found my second favorite naming convention! Yay!
The first one being, of course, naming things after random people/places/events/etc that have no relation to what the thing actually does.
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Up to a thousand numbers, requests, and responses supported. But at least you can count on never having to deal with more than 10 databases.
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Is a SQL injection vulnerability a WTF or is it not a WTF?
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The real power move is to name things after things and people that remind you of what the thing actually does. Like say if you have a math utility class and you name it after your favorite math teacher. That sort of thing.
That way code is perfectly readable to you but only you. Nobody else can understand it.
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Whooooaaaaaaa!!!! <mind-blown.gif> 🤩😲
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<quote>Is a SQL injection vulnerability a WTF or is it not a WTF?</quote> Well that is the question is it not.
And to get an answer, you need to go to Elsinore or we need your cat.
Yazeran
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"I think I found my second favorite naming convention!" I suppose it's a mild point in their favor they didn't use "the" in the variable names. "$theReq", "$theRep", etc.
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It's Schrödinger's WTF: Put a server with an SQL injection vulnerability on the net and wait 5 minutes. Without looking, the database is now in a superposition of correct and fucked-up states.
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I once refactored a class definition that defined several member variables. Three of them were named 'temp', 'temp2', and 'temp3'. Of the three, one of them was never used. The other two were used for core logic critical to the operation of the class. And no, none of them had anything to do with temperature.
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I prefer the subset $art000 -->deet000 .
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Well, I do name my variables with random letter sequences... when I'm doing "proof of concept" experiments. When I finally make the snippet do what I want from it and decide to use it in my current project/add it to my archive, I replace all this junk with something readable, often along with a heavy rewrite.
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The real WTF is that this is exactly what all the ADO.Net and Entity Framework examples teach you to do. Load the "entities", edit them and save the changes. In there it's further improved by the library having to track changes to objects and construct an update statement based on the property that had been modified.
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Well of course. It's not the request, just one of them! Therefore, it should be
$areq000.Admin
The RCA Fortran compiler circa 1969 assigned names from the dictionary. Each pass used a different letter. You would see names like aardvark and aardwolf in pass one.
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I do wonder how $req000 only got used on $db4. Did $db0-$db3 get no requests at all? Or was there a different naming perhaps.
And using $row000 for anything else than the first row is just sloppy I think.
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I once maintained a program originally written for the Apple ][ in BASIC and then ported to C on a Mac. Yes, it was C, but the conversion just tweaked syntax. Variables were still named X, P, Q2, etc. Then another programmer got in the game before me to add features and used variables like GotThemByTheShortAndCurlies and MarkOfTheBeast666. Sense of humor, I suppose, but neither any more useful then X and Q2.
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I used to be a werewolf but I'm alright $row000
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$db4 is clearly a pointer to a dBase IV database.
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Code with variables like that will be breaking down in no time.
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Friend of mine used to listen to Black Sabbath while he worked (this was in the early 90s). His variable names were based on the track he was currently listening to.
He commented his code as well, if there was a particularly good lyric somewhere that became the code comment.
$warpigs = readline(); // Generals gathered in their masses
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Or worse: $myFoo.
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Maybe my bar is lower than yours, but I'd say a SQL injection vulnerability that is exploitable just by typing in the right query parameter in the address bar is very much a WTF. Certainly, "what the fuck" is what escaped my lips when I read the first line of the code fragment.
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Eh, could be a shop with goopuddle methodology: it was not clear that there wouldn't be a report/log/something else entirely/specialcasing via JDNI done with those entries, so of course you don't oneshot it to the database. (Or there used to be – though I'd expect it to sit there, commented out – so why bother refactoring? Want part X not done anymore? Remove the lines that do X.)
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This is where werewolves (www) need to call a lawyer because I easy sue; IEASYS00. Get off my lawn.
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I hope that Sven is back at the mental hospital, getting the care that he needs.
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Years ago, I worked on an MFC system that had a UI component called the "Kateslist". It was made by a developer named Kate. Other than that, it was a fairly unremarkable combo subclass.
The same project also had an item class named "CThingy" because they'd already used CItem for a different type of item.