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by fsckboy 237 days ago
>Use full words for variable names!

that's like saying in spoken language "don't ever use pronouns, or even first or nicknames, use full given names"

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you are being intentionally dense, they are saying "don't use a single initial to identify someone, use their firstname instead"
I'm being dense? dense is something I never am, though pithy I will take. here, read this, and then you try to write something equally persuasive about long variable names. I'll wait

https://cgtweb1.tech.purdue.edu/courses/cgt456/Private/Readi...