'Long descriptive names are a good habit' dunked on: enterprise Java did it for decades, universally hated
seatedro · x · 2026-11-11
A dev shared a habit picked up from Jonathan Blow's streams—writing long, descriptive function and variable names so calls are self-explanatory. The reply: this has existed forever in the "enterprise Java mines" and is near-universally hated. It rekindles the classic readability-vs-noise debate between naming generations.
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