The preference probably depends a lot on your background. If you're spending a lot of time stitching together APIs, you probably prefer longer names for clarit

The preference probably depends a lot on your background. If you're spending a lot of time stitching together APIs, you probably prefer longer names for clarity. If you spend a lot of time writing math, the opposite is true: shorter variable and function names are better for clarity, to the point that arbitrary operator overloading is essential -- as anyone who's suffered through matrix.transpose().multiply(matrix2.inverse()).multiply(vector.multiply(scalar)) . . . would tell you!