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I'm curious if you feel the same way about programming -- do bad variable and function names only increase the difficult of understanding someone else's code or library by 0.001%?


This isn't about variable names and functions though. Math has those too, but the proposal isn't to change those. In programming we don't call a C compiler a Ritchie Hopper (or whatever).




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