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Whether programming names are letter strings in procedural memory or words in semantic memory has a profound impact on the quality of software. Word and letter relationships help determine how names will be interpreted and learned. Understanding them, and the memories in which they are used, provides a basis from which existing software nomenclature can be better discerned and names can be abbreviated to form useful mnemonics.
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Smith, D.D. (1999). Words and Letters. In: Designing Maintainable Software. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1500-4_6
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