I'll take well-named variables, functions, and classes over code comments any day. It's a chore and and half to plow through code in which the author has, for

I'll take well-named variables, functions, and classes over code comments any day. It's a chore and and half to plow through code in which the author has, for whatever misguided reasons, shortened variable names to inscrutable abbreviations, acronyms, and single letter head-scratchers. Context-switching between comments and code may be easy for the author, but isn't good for the reader. More often than not, the short-variable tendency points to an even worse problem: the author hasn't though very deeply about the software at a high level and therefore hasn't developed a good vocabulary or conceptual framework around the problem space.