Laziness is a really good one for me. But I'm not a developer, I'm actually a mathematician/statistician now working for a bank, my code is generally a couple o

Laziness is a really good one for me. But I'm not a developer, I'm actually a mathematician/statistician now working for a bank, my code is generally a couple of functions, almost none of them too long, that I did some time and glued together using a huge amount of shell and glue scripts. If I need something new I do some quick and dirty coding to work around my problem It's not exactly the ideal but it works for me, when some people need the code I change all the names of the variables. I did my PhD in Applied Mathematics (CFD, google it) and there almost every code have very short variable names, such as h, k, n, and things like that, it's a common thing in almost every numerical code that I saw out there, if you know something about theory you will be able to find out what these names are, sometimes they are two or three letters. Nothing like Sedgwick algorithms book and their single letters variable names. EDIT: Of course, CERN probably works different around their ROOT framework, but I never worked with something of comparable size.