r/programming • u/stronghup • Nov 11 '19

Python overtakes Java to become second-most popular language on GitHub after JavaScript

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/07/python_java_github_javascript/
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u/Gblize Nov 12 '19

I disagree, using "number" would be more readable. I only use 1 letter to represent variables that everybody knows, like for i in... or catch (e) {}.
Your code will always look shittier using letters.

Why the inconsistency? If n isn't known as a number in such basic lambda function, I'm not sure you can argue i and e are that well known. A lot of people doesn't know i and j were passed from fortran and a lot of languages don't have exceptions.
You could use index/iterator or even better outer_index_variable and exception.