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Questions concerning low-level aspects of a system: programming close to the underlying details and hardware.

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Why are cryptic short identifiers still so common in low-level programming?

Zipf's Law You yourself can observe by looking at this very text that word length and frequency of usage are, in general, inversely related. Words that are used very frequently, like it, a, but, you, …
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