[ajross]

And I strongly repeat that well-understood and commonly-used APIs benefit (strongly, heh) from concision and idiom.

Seriously, when was the last time a C programmer needed to figure out where identifiers like "strlen" or "fread" come from? The problem you posit need not exist for big chunks of commonly used APIs, and the inability of modern programmers (trained, it seems, on C# web service code) to see that is frustrating.

[Too]

> Seriously, when was the last time a C programmer needed to figure out where identifiers like "strlen" or "fread" come from?

http://www.suodenjoki.dk/us/archive/2010/min-max.htm