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[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

The over-abbreviation is some kind of weird flaw that hardware guys all have

My bet is on the teaching methods in uni. From what I've seen, older teaching methods use terrible variable names for a production environment. I think it unfortunately sticks because students get used to it and find it easier & faster than typing things out.