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by im3w1l 660 days ago
The best name from a readability standpoint is the shortest name you know by heart. So you might actually want to consider who your intended audience is.
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Exactly. Any for many commands you need to actually know what the command is doing to fully understand it and can't just go by intuition based on the name. So something more natural sounding can actually be more misleading because it tricks you into thinking the name describes the entirety of what the command does.