I was working on some legacy code in PowerBuilder, when I saw the name of a user interface control (heavily anonymised and fun-ised):
lust_staffname
Let’s break that down:
- local (as opposed to global)
- user (I think? User-created as opposed to system/standard)
- static text (the Label equivalent in ASP.NET)
I wonder what was going through that programmer’s mind when he wrote that…


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