Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: bob Newsgroups: comp.programming Subject: bigger and worse? Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 07:17:39 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 5 Message-ID: <20993941.1062.1335277059630.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@ynlp3> NNTP-Posting-Host: 184.76.139.203 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1335277060 13918 127.0.0.1 (24 Apr 2012 14:17:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:17:40 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=184.76.139.203; posting-account=v1lx5wkAAAALWYfGBkwkMb2guPF9cW2u User-Agent: G2/1.0 Xref: csiph.com comp.programming:1496 I remember the days when we had functions with short reasonable names like printf, scanf, and fopen. Now, they seem to have names like dequeueReusableAnnotationViewWithIdentifier. Shouldn't there be some effort made to keep functions and identifiers short and easy to memorize?