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Re: Variable names


  • Subject: Re: Variable names
  • From: Walter Bushell <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 07:32:39 -0500

On Jan 13, 2011, at 1:01 AM, BareFeetWare wrote:

> No, I'm saying that in a script that takes 15 minutes to write, the extra five seconds it takes to write descriptive variable names will save cumulative time that is 100 or 1000 fold (ie 500 or 5000 seconds). That saved time can accumulate though less programming errors since it's more clear to the author what's going on, or saved debugging time or saved interpretation time when you post a script to a mail list with 100 readers.

It can take a long time, like hours to come up with a meaningful name for an iterator, for me at least, and that may chance as I understand the problem better. I, for one, think at a prelanguage level.
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