I've always thought that code would be much easier to understand with shorter, less descriptive variable names. Whenever I look at new code most of the confusion involves searching through layers of abstraction for the part that actually does the thing as opposed to the layer upon layer of connections between abstractions which would be much less necessary if the entire behavior could be encoded in a single line. You can only have a small number of descriptive variables in an expression before it becomes entirely unreadable. That is opposed to single character with sub/superscripts where you can easily see what's happening with tens of variables in a single line of math.

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Here's a formula for calculating the downstream Mach number in a certain kind of supersonic flow. I cannot imagine any way to write this in "descriptive variables" which makes the formula understandable at all, you just could not see the structure. (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_shock )