[Zope-Coders] Re: [Zope-Checkins] CVS: Zope/lib/python/ZODB - FileStorage.py:1.98.2.1

[Jens Vagelpohl]

+1 for ken. "cute" names are bad.

jens


On Thursday, Nov 7, 2002, at 09:30 US/Eastern, Ken Manheimer wrote:

> On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Toby Dickenson wrote:
>
>> On Thursday 07 November 2002 1:27 pm, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>
>>> But picking George Bailey as a name would be unique in
>>> that its name is a cultural reference rather than a reference to the
>>> meaning.
>>
>> I agree its not the best name to have chosen, but I dont see it is
>> sufficiently broken to change.
>
> I do.  Naming is increasingly important the larger and more
> sophisticated a system is.  There are myriad details to track, and
> even developers with phenomenal memory cannot sort out an arbitrary
> system by rote - names provide substantial cues so the programmer need
> *not* remember everything arbitrarily!  As someone who does not have a
> phenomenal memory, i feel strongly that good, orienting names are very
> important.  As someone sensitive to those newly getting acquainted
> with a system, i feel even more strongly that obscure cuteness is bad
> - it can make the system seem unnecessarily obscure and unapproachable.
> "George Bailey" is obscure cuteness.  (Maybe as bad as "UntextIndex",
> but in a different way.)
>
> -- 
> Ken
> klm@zope.com
>
>
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