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Subject: Re: Long names are doom ?
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> 
> Would you be "less memorable" if you were
> 
>     Patricia_Shanahan@Association_of_Computing_Machinery.Organization
> 
> instead of simply
> 
>     pats@acm.org?

Actually, both are not that easy. 

> 
 But does
> that make it harder for them to remember the URL www.mtv.com?

I doubt that my code is going to become as popular as mtv or www or
.com.

If there were standard abbreviations or popular abbreviations or
common ones, I think people would understand those. One way to get a
happy medium is to use
Descriptive class names or somewhere in the code where you can figure
out what
the object is. 

AbbreviationConfabulator ac = new AbbreviationConfabulator(); //is not
bad style.
OR
public static String LCD = "Least Common Denominator"; 
sheesh or at least comments. (that's what they're there for)
The javadoc is a neat invention. someday, someone might decide to use
it.
;>
Long or short neither bother me unless it is intentionally obnoxious
or undocumented at least somewhere in the file.