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in thread $bad_names eq $bad_design

I agree with Ovid's premise. Though it is not always true. Sometimes the writer's energy for naming just failed or the naming was just boggled somehow. Additionally Ovid's premise is just not true, if I have well designed code and randomly change the identifiers I would have obfuscated, well-designed code. I agree because The physical medium in which we construct programs is so facile that it behooves us to construct programs whose models reconstruct in our and other minds easily.

Your point is also sublime. Thanks.

All of this side steps the issue of domain knowledge. What is an EXPENSE_LIMIT? Is this terminology which is standard to accounting, to accounting programs, an unknown or forgotten computer science snippet or a construct named idiocyncraticly to this program/system? <p> This is also an issue to consider in the pursuit of clarity.

Update: Struck out text, respelled computor.