xkcd toon: Writing styles

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mouseover text "I liked the idea, suggested by h00k on bash.org, of a Twitter bot that messages prominent politicians to tell them when they've unnecessarily used sms-speak abbreviations despite having plenty of characters left"

http://digg.com/newsbar/topnews/xkcd_writing_styles

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1. in a similar vein, i once asked a computer science professor back in college

why he wrote programs with no capital letters, cryptically short variable names, and no comments.

he said, "you only get so many keystrokes before you die!"