Sure, brevity is the soul of wit and all that. Just so long as you don't go dropping letters from the middle of words because you're going for the unixy aesthe

Sure, brevity is the soul of wit and all that. Just so long as you don't go dropping letters from the middle of words because you're going for the unixy aesthetic. That style is an anachronism from an era when symbol length was limited, it doesn't belong in modern code.