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Natural naming means that source program elements such as variables, constants, tables, and procedures should be named using whole natural words. In addition, natural names should describe the functionality of the program, and the words of the names should be organized according to the grammatical rules of the natural language. Natural naming thus rejects abbreviations, a rather common programming practice. Natural names can make source programs more readable, understandable, and reusable, and thereby aid the learning and communication processes in software development and maintenance.
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Laitinen, K. (1994). Pacific: A Programming Language Based on the Idea of Natural Naming. In: Baeza-Yates, R. (eds) Computer Science 2. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9805-0_43
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