Oh, I wasn't talking about variable names, those are certainly the fastest to read and communicate the complexities of a domain. I was talking about programming

Oh, I wasn't talking about variable names, those are certainly the fastest to read and communicate the complexities of a domain. I was talking about programming languages that require 3-4x the code/boilerplate to write the same logic. For example, F# usually needs roughly half the lines and way less than half the characters than the equivalent C# code, assuming all the same variable and function names. Other examples are Scala, Haskell, Clojure, Go, or even lambdas and the Linq features of C#. I've heard others argue we shouldn't use these because "jr members won't understand them". Usually the person arguing this position is not junior, and does not know the feature or language now. Which leads me to believe it has nothing to do with junior members at all, and everything to do with them. Edit: I also think that writing down to the least skilled member is disrespectful to them and you. It's pandering to treat them as too ignorant or stupid to learn powerful concepts, no matter who they are. I also think most people who make this argument disregard the sheer cliff wall of difficulty that is modern software development. The difference in difficulty between an entire C# stack with inheritance, interfaces, threads, polymorphism, and mutable class state and all that plus lambdas is really minor.