Many years ago I had to try to debug a memory manager written by a really talented software engineer, with an interesting take on naming things…
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He referred to blocks of memory as “cookies”.
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He had a temporary variable named “handy” because it was handy to have around.
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He had a second temporary variable that referenced the first one that he called “son_of_handy”.
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If corruption was detected in a block of memory then it would set the flag “shit_cookie_corrupt”.
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If too many cookies were corrupt then the system would halt by calling the function “oh_shit_oh_shit_oh_shit”.
That was close to 30 years ago - a DOS memory manager written prior to Windows 3.0. He’s likely retired now…