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As a lingua franca, it's culturally reasonable.

After you've grokked it the first time, e.g. "dgemm" is much more convenient than "double precision general matrix multiplication". This is akin to speaking aloud "DC" versus "The District of Columbia". Uses far outweigh learning.

Consider even Python calls it a "dict" not a "dictionary" because the latter is a mouthful. Though what was wrong with "map" I often wonder.




> Consider even Python calls it a "dict" not a "dictionary" because the latter is a mouthful. Though what was wrong with "map" I often wonder.

A conflict with the map() function maybe?




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