Why I'll never abbreviate a variable as long as I live
I was recently implementing a geometry algorithm which I looked up on quora. It was described using typical vector notation, using r,s . t,u.   Since I referenced the algorithm in the comments, I decided to use these same variable names in my code.<p>I think this is the right choice, but my code reviewer didn&#x27;t. But he didn&#x27;t click on the quora link.<p>Why is okay for mathemeticians to abbreviate things but programmers? Is it because they deal in more abstract entities where the name is irrelevant?