Noob syntax question re: variables

[system]

I'm very new to the programming side of things. So after reading that variables should be named something that a person can consume easily, I was wondering... Does the verbosity of my variable names matter once the code is compiled? In other words, do long variable names take up more memory space in the program than short ones?

For example:

byte myVar = 1;
or
byte myVeryUsefullyDescriptiveVariableName = 1;

Thanks!

[system]

I think not.

It's just an alias for the actual variable (adress in RAM) that the compiler translates in to the appropriate machine instructions when compiling.

[system]

Cool. Thanks!