It's plain and simple pedantry, and it's not confined to Java. This mindset has a healthy representation in the Ruby community, which actually makes programming

It's plain and simple pedantry, and it's not confined to Java. This mindset has a healthy representation in the Ruby community, which actually makes programming in Java much less distasteful to me -- if I'm going to be writing AbstractSingletonFactoryAdapters, then at least let my AbstractSingletonFactoryAdapters be fast.