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by martininmelb 4880 days ago
After reading many of the responses, I am wondering if there is a difference between the 'business programmers' and the 'scientific/mathematical programmers'. Most of the examples below show code that could have come from physics or maths code. I have noticed that my code (scientific) tends to have much shorter variable names than the code of some of my "not so mathematical" counterparts. Also, 'business' languages like Java and COBOL seem to encourage longer names more than C and FORTRAN.