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Re:How to Write Unmaintainable Code (2017) by marcosdumay on Friday August 17, 2018 @02:13PM (#17784670)
> Single letter var names

They are also a Haskellers favorite.

There's a non-sarcastic paper running on the internet named something like "descriptive variable names considered harmful". Most of the community agrees with it, including me.

Re:How to Write Unmaintainable Code (2017) by therealdrag0 on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @09:20AM (#17858571)
Why are they harmful?
Re:How to Write Unmaintainable Code (2017) by Hirak on Friday August 17, 2018 @02:35PM (#17784840)
> Single letter var names

There are tons of those in Android framework code as well