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The inability to comprehend why a mashup of nouns into a long class name might be useful is one of the most annoying memes on HN. Is it just that programmers a
by mcphilip 13y ago
The inability to comprehend why a mashup of nouns into a long class name might be useful is one of the most annoying memes on HN. Is it just that programmers are slow typist or something? Surely any competent programmer should be able to string together what the individual terms mean in your example (Rectangle, Collection, Color Picker, Factory), and easily grok what the class is intended to be used for.
- Jare 13y agoThe meme is more about the abuse of that idea into absurdly overengineered and the approach to programming where anything needs 3x the amount of work in the form of scaffolding and code bureaucracy.