Surprised nobody has linked this yet: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/ https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/fal

Surprised nobody has linked this yet: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/ https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-... Also note that while the counter examples might sound extreme, in some languages each character might need 3 bytes in UTF-8, and 128/3 ~= 43 characters doesn't seem to be that outrageous.