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by jodrellblank 621 days ago
By that measure naming a variable “objUser” instead of “user” is better because it has more information, and naming the same variable “cgjkkytdvjkftujmhffetb” is even better because it contains more information.

The parse tree approach is trying to get at a fuzzy notion of useful information and useful density of information.