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    That's an interesting example. Also, the same pattern has happened to other terms as well: 1. At first, a quite specific meaning. 2. As time goes on, the same term gets used for mo…

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    Great book. The interview with Peter Attia on Star Talk was also interesting (and some parts hilarious): https://startalkmedia.com/show/medicine-3-0-extending-human-...

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    Yeah, anything that contradict s PEP-8 conventions looks unnatural in Python. :-)

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    Yes, that's a great point. Some names are generally unclear, but more often, they are unclear in a context. Do you have some "contextual" examples?

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    I agree with those points, both on the positive and negative side. Do you have some examples of vague or misleading names?

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    Yes, exactly. Thanks for the clarifying question. :-) Any kind of artifact in code: modules, functions, classes, arguments, variables...

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    “Every six months or so, someone would ask in our meetings, ‘Should we think about general purpose code generation,’ but the answer was always ‘No, it’s too difficult, the current …