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> Many folks have advocated using more-descriptive names for the objects.
> For example, City_Name instead of A_String.  That's of course a good
> idea when there *is* a more descriptive name, but for general-purpose
> parameters, it doesn't work.  Put takes *any* string; there is no
> adjective such that Adj_String would aid understanding of the program.

Well, I've already said that FILE *file is the only place
I can justify case sensitivity, but even there I'd prefer
something more descriptive for the formal object.

As for vague names for general-purpose parameters, there
are usually alternatives.  A few examples:

 From    Item   Index
To      Str    Substring
Out_Of  Into   Result
Angle   ....

Note that I am trying to express the abstraction, i.e.,
what we are doing, rather than the implementation, i.e.,
what kind of data representation we are doing it with.