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Subject: Re: expert-friendly: are long names a waste of time?
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Date: Tue, 1-Nov-83 21:12:17 EST
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This is why I prefer "compile_pascal_program" over "pascal":

Question: If the name of the pascal compiler is "pascal",
          what is the pascal debugger called?

Answer: Well, um, uh....  Maybe "debug_pascal" or "pascal_debug" or
        "debug", or...  Well, who knows, really.

Question: If the name of the pascal compiler is "compile_pascal_program",
          what is the pascal debugger called?

Answer: debug_pascal_program!

Once I know the long names for things, I can find out the system
abbreviations if I need them.  Maybe I know the system-wide abbreviation
rule, and can figure out the abbreviation myself.  But I don't have to
remember arbitrary names right from the start.
-- 
        -IAN!  (Ian! D. Allen)      University of Waterloo