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See sibling comment about domain-specific language; there's nothing wrong with long function names if your autocomplete is working. Codebase I'm working with has names like "auditNullRecipeCursorAtEndOfOrderLineAdditionsIfRequired" and "getUnselectedSiblingWithSametabIndexOrCreateRepeatedChildIfLessThanMax"

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It's hard to notice typos in names that long. Can you immediately tell where the typo is in auditNullRecipeCursorAtStartOfOrderLineAdditionsIfRequired ?

I can't tell at all. Fortunately, as long as someone hasn't declared another function with the typoed name, either Intellisense or the compiler will tell me.

I have a much harder time with "_tcscpy_s" and similar suites of functions where a single-letter typo is likely to be a different function with the same signature.

I changed ...End... to ...Start..., which could be a plausible real world bug.

I don't have a tool that relieves me of needing to read all those names, so not having to type them isn't that helpful.

Domain-specific languages are productive; their parts combine in ways giving novel results. A list of a million verbs you can only ever use for one purpose is not a language in that sense.

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