Not really. Go also encourages short, concise names, and it seems to work pretty well... or at least not be causing significant headaches so far as I can tell.

Not really. Go also encourages short, concise names, and it seems to work pretty well... or at least not be causing significant headaches so far as I can tell. Why would one be forgetting and grepping for tmp? That's the kind of variable that would be inside a function (so max one or two screenfuls, according to the guidelines here), and more realistically would usually be declared and used entirely within the same block of a dozen or so lines of code. Nobody is going to forget whether it is temp or temp while reading those 12 lines of code. And using temporary is just silly -- I can't think of a single time I've ever seen that used in any language.