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     One aspect which seems not to have come up in the lengthy 
discussion of the suitability of long versus short names is the 
difficulty in manipulating long names on a typical computer CRT 
screen which is still limited to perhaps 24 lines of 80 characters
or so.  
     If one has the luxury of working always from a complete, up to date
source listing, long names can be very helpful, especially when the 
program editor supports typing abbreviations with automatic expansion to 
the full name.  It would also be valuable to have a programming support
environment which allowed one to call up the declaration and associated 
comment for any name quickly.
     Unfortunately, the small CRT screens which many computers have today 
makes the use of names longer than about 10 characters difficult.  One then
does not get to see nealry as much of the program on screen at one time.
I know that workstations are increasingly supporting larger screens, but 
recent figures I have seen indicate that better than 70% of practicing 
programmers will be working with the small screens even in 1989.