[gruseom]

Interesting piece. This line:

More powerful programming languages rely less heavily on naming

... reminds me of section 1.1. of Compiling With Continuations:

The beauty of FORTRAN—and the reason it was an improvement over assembly language—is that it relieves the programmer of the obligation to make up names for intermediate results.

I remember going "Wha?" when I read that.

[geocar]

It makes a certain amount of sense though: Just think of all the times, in all seriousness, one uses `tmp` or god forbid, `tmp2` as a variable name.