> "Is it because they deal in more abstract entities where the name is irrelevant?" Partially, but also because math equations don't really have strong maintai

> "Is it because they deal in more abstract entities where the name is irrelevant?" Partially, but also because math equations don't really have strong maintainability needs. Another mathematician isn't going to walk in 6 months later, get confused, and blow up the universe. Though I'd argue that in fact math equations should be better named. They're rather abstractly named as a matter of convention, but they would be more easily understandable in many cases if variables were more carefully named. Another risk of "porting" geometry algorithms, especially complex ones, directly from their mathematical expressions, is that you don't gain insight into why they work. This makes debugging later difficult, since nobody who wrote the code actually understood what the algorithm was doing. Forcing yourself to rename variables into something sensible will also force you to understand the mechanics of what's happening.