I call it "ctrl+space semantically-aware word completion" and "self-documenting function names." Nothing unusual in multi-year multi-programmer software. As m

I call it "ctrl+space semantically-aware word completion" and "self-documenting function names." Nothing unusual in multi-year multi-programmer software. As much as I like succinct function names, in my experience they don't work when there's more than one hacker involved. A strategy I have followed is to make long names for the top-level, interface-like functions, and succinct ones for all the internals; i.e. put the verbosity where others need to look up code to use it as a library, where "library" is understood as an individual/indepenent component of a larger software project.