In my experience there are a couple of reasons that lead to bad names in programs: - it takes effort to think of a good name. And more of the linguistically cr

In my experience there are a couple of reasons that lead to bad names in programs: - it takes effort to think of a good name. And more of the linguistically creative type instead of the logical reasoning type which makes up most of the rest of programming. - it takes domain expertise to pick a good name - if you stare too long at the same piece of code it becomes harder to see it through the eyes of someone who has never seen that code before - almost everybody uses in English in their programs, but many people are not native speakers But I think making an actual effort to pick a good name already goes a long way. It forces you to think about the problem at hand and how you could communicate that to somebody else.