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Developers spend the majority of their time reading code, a process in which identifier names play a key role. Although many identifier naming styles exist, they often lack an empirical basis and it is not clear whether short or long identifier names facilitate comprehension. In this paper, we investigate the effect of different identifier naming styles (single letters, abbreviations, and words) on...