Hello, everybody,
In 1992, I presented in a PPIG workshop a paper
related to natural naming. Natural naming in programming
means simply that you should not use abbreviations in
the names (identifiers, symbols) when you write computer
programs. Instead, all the names of methods,
'reduces programming errors' - this is in the context of people learning to
program, or professional programmers?
Is there quantitative evidence for the assertion?
How would you account for the success of Perl with the plethora of $_ and @_
and %_ ?
How do you deal with the idea that in a
Hello Kari,
several natural words. In my opinion and experience,
the use of natural names makes programs more readable
and understandable,
When you say more readable ..., what form of naming
conventions are you comparing against?
The problem with natural names is that people rarely
