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by dmix
2495 days ago
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Didn't DJB famously use very small variable names when writing qmail in C? This is (obviously) not unique to C or Clojure. But it is something that is occasionally influenced the language best practices or culture, as you see in the giant names everywhere in Objective-C and the opposite in the push for minimalism in Ruby. The names of complex functions, even with documentation, tends to be a bigger problem with scale than local variables and functions or utility functions. Language design stuff like namespacing/modules helps provide a balance between short/descriptive and so does documentation of key/complex parts as well as how you architect the larger pieces and organize code in directories. Additionally there's type systems, IDEs with docs/function + type signature integration, standards like JSDoc, etc that help. So it's a mix of a lot of things besides the human. |
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