[wbond]

Here's an interesting observation I've found related naming in dynamic languages. As I've been working more with Ruby and Python over the past few years, I've been using and debugging more and more open source code. In the process, I've noticed how naming affects trying to work with and debug code in these languages. In general I've found it more difficult to jump in and figure out code written in ruby than python.

Part of this seems to be the grep-ability of identifiers. In the ruby community there seems to be more of a push towards constructing DSLs, which seems to cause developers to write more generic single word methods and variable names. Searching through a decent sized codebase tends to result in a lot of noise/reuse. In the python world, it seems that methods at least tend to be a little more verbose and more easily identifiable. Explicit imports in python do help quite a bit also.

Has anyone else noticed a similar pattern, or am I being biased here?