I think a better question is: Why would you want a function that gets students to be called anything other than `getStudent`? Fundamentally, the simpler, easie

I think a better question is: Why would you want a function that gets students to be called anything other than `getStudent`? Fundamentally, the simpler, easier to parse your function name is, the more readable and editable your code is. I definitely think overloading functions is more interesting/ important than named parameters. But named parameters are useful both for overloaded functions and for optional parameters where you might not know what the 3rd/ 4th parameter might be. One pattern I see frequently in languages which lack named parameters is instead of using optional parameters, people pass objects with optional properties. This is used a ton in Javascript/ Typescript. If the language supported proper named & optional parameters, it wouldn't be an issue.