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What exactly is annoying?

I always want my variable names to be as long and descriptive as possible. We're no longer in the teletype era and our monitors are huge. With autocomplete there is no reason to keep variable names short




Thats the only acceptable way to write code, but it doesn't mean that names can't be too expressive, for example I wouldn't accept nameing like this:

> RandomizeArrayPositionUsingFisherYatesShuffle

Since the algorithm detail is something I don't want to think about when I use it and something that the implementer should be able to change without changing the contract.


Visual clutter bothers some people more than others. It bothers me a lot.




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