It's probably just the weight of tradition from the longhand days that leads people to use the short variable names, not that it's somehow better, even on a com

It's probably just the weight of tradition from the longhand days that leads people to use the short variable names, not that it's somehow better, even on a computer. All it would probably take would be for someone to start a math journal that required a minimum of three letter variable names and everyone would switch over.