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Questions 22

1. Where should the name of a program and the opening bracket of a function definition begin?
2. In what human language should comments be written for the GNU Project? Why?
3. Which is better as the name of a variable: plotArea, PlotArea, or plot_area? Why?
4. Why is it important to initialize a variable near where it is used in a long function?
5. Give an example of a case where using local variables is impractical.