top | item 46937017 (no title) mac3n | 21 days ago Now, tell us about "ZQX3". discuss order hn newest stackghost|21 days ago This is the first time in my life encountering "ZQX3" in some context that suggests it has broad meaning.What does ZQX3 have to do with TFA? mac3n|17 days ago folklore was that IBM used it as an example of a bad variable name, based on Zarathustra Q Xerxes IIIHere it is, in fact! Page 19:http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/ibm/360/os/...> But if the programmer decided to use ZQX-3 in pl.ace of MINIMUM-BALANCE because it is shorter, or because he once met a cab driver named Zarathustra Q. Xerxes III, then it is a bad name.
stackghost|21 days ago This is the first time in my life encountering "ZQX3" in some context that suggests it has broad meaning.What does ZQX3 have to do with TFA? mac3n|17 days ago folklore was that IBM used it as an example of a bad variable name, based on Zarathustra Q Xerxes IIIHere it is, in fact! Page 19:http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/ibm/360/os/...> But if the programmer decided to use ZQX-3 in pl.ace of MINIMUM-BALANCE because it is shorter, or because he once met a cab driver named Zarathustra Q. Xerxes III, then it is a bad name.
mac3n|17 days ago folklore was that IBM used it as an example of a bad variable name, based on Zarathustra Q Xerxes IIIHere it is, in fact! Page 19:http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/ibm/360/os/...> But if the programmer decided to use ZQX-3 in pl.ace of MINIMUM-BALANCE because it is shorter, or because he once met a cab driver named Zarathustra Q. Xerxes III, then it is a bad name.
stackghost|21 days ago
What does ZQX3 have to do with TFA?
mac3n|17 days ago
Here it is, in fact! Page 19:
http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/ibm/360/os/...
> But if the programmer decided to use ZQX-3 in pl.ace of MINIMUM-BALANCE because it is shorter, or because he once met a cab driver named Zarathustra Q. Xerxes III, then it is a bad name.