Yeah - I was thinking about a Java codebase I was looking at a while back that had ultra verbose variable names like "BackupCopyOfLedgerUsedInWorstCaseScenarioP

Yeah - I was thinking about a Java codebase I was looking at a while back that had ultra verbose variable names like "BackupCopyOfLedgerUsedInWorstCaseScenarioProjections" You couldn’t even do a simple addition in 80 characters. This limitation seems fairly language specific, and has a lot of side effects for the rest of your style guide.