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Do Not Use Acronyms
- ThorinJacobs 8y agoUse of abbreviations is one of the greatest contributors to cognitive complexity I've seen in code. There's been plenty of times that I've renamed the variables in a method and all of a sudden what was completely inscrutable is really very simple. Acronyms are a particularly nasty subset of abbreviations because they're accepted in discussion of business needs and even in tutorials and documentation.
- torstenvl 8y agoI like Elon Musk's approach and its blessing of widely-used acronyms. My industry both uses a ton of acronyms and requires that formal written work define an acronym the first time it's used in a document. This requirement has no exceptions, even for widely-known acronyms like "NCIS"