I know I'm probably in the minority, but I vastly prefer the long-form name in your example. Modern IDE's (especially Visual Studio with its Intellisense) can b

I know I'm probably in the minority, but I vastly prefer the long-form name in your example. Modern IDE's (especially Visual Studio with its Intellisense) can be incredible with their autocomplete, superseding the need for short-form obtuse acronym-laden function names that you need to remember. So let's assume there's no time difference between writing the long or short form of that function. There's only one other direction to consider, which is reading. Try to approach the following question without personal bias. If you have never worked with either API, which function name would be more self-explanatory for you? ConvertStringSecurityDescriptorToSecurityDescriptorA or sec_sddl_to_desc?