Readability and Naming Things

Many people think that the readability of code has to do with the letters and symbols used. They believe it is the adding, removing, or changing of those symbols that makes code more readable. In some sense, they’re right. However, the underlying principle is: Readability of code depends primarily on how space is occupied by letters and symbols. What does that mean? Well, it means two things: Code should have the proper amount of white space around it. Not too much, not too little. There should be the proper amount of space within a line of code to separate out

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