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> Size often correlates with complexity. It can correlate with complexity positively and negatively. Which one explanation below is easier to understand? Pho
by oh-kumudo 9y ago
> Size often correlates with complexity.
It can correlate with complexity positively and negatively.
Which one explanation below is easier to understand?
Photosynthesis? Or 'process used by plants and other organisms to convert light energy into chemical energy that can later be released to fuel the organisms' activities'?
You could argue that Photo+Synthesis might be enough to imply the essential underlying mechanism of the process itself, but I think more people would prefer the latter just for clarity.
- avmich 9y agoI don't think example with photosynthesis suggests anything here. Naming and describing are different things. You can certainly name verbs in J, like functions in other languages, and get the code both shorter and easier to understand, because it would be distracting to always read the long definition. I think more people actually prefer former almost always, except when defining what that the photosynthesis is.