You are correct. But more important is internal consistency - and adherence to the consistency rules of the eco-system. This allows to deduce naming of API-Elem

You are correct. But more important is internal consistency - and adherence to the consistency rules of the eco-system. This allows to deduce naming of API-Elements after a while. So the most important rule is- do not be creative. Think like a bureaucrat, adhere to the standards and the ecosystem around you. I hate this field so much. That anyone creative chooses willingly to go into software is a miracle. Are there people out their with pre-broken spirits, that want to join this soul-less galley of horrors? Starvation should be preferable to this. But i digress.. Why not make naming something that can be personalized? Make the variablename a sort of rule-based-building-block-lego-system, that can be adapted by the user. Increment+Variable -> "upIndex" for you Increment+Variable -> "incVar" for me. Everyone is happy, the frameworks and apis only specify the buildingblocks as variableNames.. autotranslated variableNames, customized to everyones flavour. Hooray, i contributed. Prolonging the nightmare.