Originally Posted by Village Idiot

To make a counterpoint, && and || are the universal* standards for AND and OR. Since you are writing programming code, it is best to stick to the programming language opposed to English. I personally find AND and OR really messy and hard to read (primarily because it can be easily mistaken for non-logic code). Although I do admit that I tend to use AND and OR a lot because I didn't realize you could use && and || till I was in SQL for a while and habit formed.

*Except for BASIC, but that hardly counts