abbreviations

It seems like an easy win if already downscaling abbreviations if you can do it in hardware.

It's a very basic technology that works across nationalities and languages once you learn the q codes, abbreviations and prosigns.

Coming up short on what RIL or OHM are abbreviations for in this context, though.

Not to mention it also lead people to using generic non-descriptive variable names and abbreviations.

My TRS-80 had 4K, so the Basic language used one-letter abbreviations for all the commands.

Is there anything that suggests letter count is a barrier to dyslexics, and not, say, word count or number of obscure abbreviations?

Names and addresses are extremely difficult to verify as spelling, abbreviations, etc.

We chose to use full state names rather than the abbreviations, i.e.

And for me they are a bit like a red flag - every job that has 3 pages of technical abbreviations is not worth applying for.

My name is not Richard, or any abbreviations of it!

I do know all those principles but had no idea there were common abbreviations.

Most (all?) three- and four-letter abbreviations are already used.

While some of the pointer types are pretty verbose, they have nice abbreviations for many of them, and the "let" statement is just brilliant.

This is a hospital that administers chemotherapy so the instructions are more complicated than "take with food three times a day." The developer who got assigned that ticket had the nerve to suggest using abbreviations instead of making the change.

If you look at the attached list of telegraph abbreviations, which is alphabetized by the long form of each word, you will see that U abbreviates "you" (as we would all expect) and Tr abbreviates "there." Are you there?

Abbreviations are less common due to widespread autocomplete, but people still look for ways to type less.

Abbreviations only buy you bytes in the source code at the expense of readability.