"Andrej Mitrovic" <andrej.mitrov...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:mailman.179.1331149059.4860.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... > On 3/7/12, H. S. Teoh <hst...@quickfur.ath.cx> wrote: >> The human brain is highly capable of inferring intention from context > > I don't think our brains should be wasted on decyphering > abbreviations. Too much abbreviations could drive a sane person nuts.
Yes, but OTOH, too much fully-spelled-out stuff makes code much harder to read (even without going as far as the Java extreme). Good use of common abbreviations is easier to read than full words. For example, "i18n". Or "5*2" instead of "five times two". No decyphering is needed at all with good common abbreviations, and they decrease verbosity which improves readability.
