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by vharuck 2160 days ago
>Researchers had programmers fix bugs in a codebase, either with all of the identifiers were abbreviated, or where all of the identifiers were full-words. They found no difference in time taken or quality of debugging.

I would not have expected that. Still, I prefer to use full(er) identifiers. I don't like to guess how things were abbreviated, especially when consistency isn't guaranteed. If I were using a different language and IDE, this might be better.