First off, who ever knew there was a song with the word "permutation" in it?! That's kinda… hot.
But the actual issue I chose to write about today was programming, for that's what I've been spending most of my time doing lately. I'm writing the code for a Battleship program for my com sci course (I love how cool I sound when I say that… com sci), and now I'm past the "where the hell do I start?" stage, so it's actually fun.
The issue I want to write about, however, is variables. A dilemma I often face, and I'm sure many other programmers do as well, is naming variables. On one hand, I want them to make sense. I want to be able to look at this program in a few months and still know what the hell I was trying to do. And although no other programmers are really looking at my code, this is often cited as a reason for proper variable names, so I feel like saying that as well.
But on the other hand, sometimes I just feel like being really wild and naming a variable, say… Bill! Or George!
More often than not though, the logical side of me takes over and says, "no, no having fun. You're programming. You're getting way too much pleasure from this already, you sick, sick person".