Sometimes the hardest part of creating something new is giving it a name. The name of something can greatly contribute to its success. If you have seen "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" you have watched the plight of engineers illustrated in a humorous fashion. For developing software a badly named variable might confuse support developers. A badly named application might not be purchased. A clear concise variable is a jewel.
Now for a few words on vowels.
Example:
getSampleWidget
Example 2:
getSmplWdgt
Which would you like to read? What are you saving? Are you using a language that has an unreasonable limit on variable names?
Further Reading:
StackOverflow - maximum length:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/425988/maximum-method-name-length
Wikipedia - naming conventions:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naming_convention_%28programming%29
-Carl Burks
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