This has a drawback that when reading the original documentation, not only do you have to mentally translate the code examples into your target language, but al

This has a drawback that when reading the original documentation, not only do you have to mentally translate the code examples into your target language, but also translate the identifiers too. And "C names are usually very cryptic" is plain false, unless you talk about APIs coming from the ages and compilers where all identifiers had to be 8 characters or fewer in length.