In my admittedly limited experience there seems to be at least 3 aliases for every keyword which makes reading someone else's code a real hassle sometimes. Our ops guys swear by it though.
Yes, this makes for much easier to read code for people down the road :)
I think OPS folks (myself included) sometimes create things thinking nobody but them will use them, then an occasion arises to share, and you're stuck with something functional but horrible to read.
It took just one such occasion for me to convert to writing everything from the perspective that 'other people may need to use this.'
