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"Jakob Bieling" <netsurf@gmy.net> wrote in message
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> "Jacob Sparre Andersen" <sparre@crs4.it> wrote in message
> news:3F8BFCF5.6020906@crs4.it...
>
>     Also, sometimes I tend to abbreviate quite a lot, so that later I
might
> not know what it stands for. In cases like those I just put a comment next
> to where I declared the variable and I can keep saving those keystrokes.
>

If you can't remember what it meant, pity the poor engineer who has to
maintain your code when you've gone! Having to look up a declaration every
few seconds is not acceptable.

There is evidence* to suggest that 80% of programming is (or should be)
thinking time. Saving keystrokes is therefore not an issue.

Regards,

Peter Bushell.

* My source was Glass, Robert L., "Facts and Fallacies of Software
Engineering". His source was some research material published in another of
his books: "Software Creativity".