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Some of FB's ~18,000 Obj-C header files from a post linked in the article: [1]

* FBFeedAwesomizerProfileListCardViewControllerListenerAnnouncer.h

* FBBoostedComponentCreateInputDataCreativeObjectStorySpecLinkDataCallToActionValue.h

* FBEventUpdateNotificationSubscriptionLevelMutationOptimisticPayloadFactoryProtocol-Protocol.h

* FBGroupUpdateRequestToJoinSubscriptionLevelMutationOptimisticPayloadFactoryProtocol-Protocol.h

* FBMemReactionAcornSportsContentSettingsSetShouldNotPushNotificationsResponsePayloadBuilder.h

* FBProfileSetEventsCalendarSubscriptionStatusInputDataContextEventActionHistory.h

* FBReactionUnitUserSettingsDisableUnitTypeMutationOptimisticPayloadFactoryProtocol-Protocol.h

oh my god

[1]: http://quellish.tumblr.com/post/126712999812/how-on-earth-th...

Those read like classes generated by tools. Or maybe I really don't want to think humans are capable of such names.

Well, the humans could be tools...

These are completely credible class names, just ask any Enterprise Java developer. I particularly enjoy FactoryProtocol-Protocol. Who would be satisfied with just a FactoryProtocol?

Yea, I was going to say, Java's almost got them beat with SimpleBeanFactoryAwareAspectInstanceFactory[1]

1: http://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/2.5.x/javadoc-api/org/spri...

Invoking the Spring framework here is just cheating -- they have dozens of classes like that! :-)

Just the other day I was dealing with Spring's declarative transactional support. Here's a fun read: http://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/docs/4.2.x/spring-fra...

They could be. The effective coding standards for iOS are to make class names stupidly long.

Makes me wonder how much dead code makes it into that abnormally large binary.

long names are good for both searchability and documentation purposes, and not a problem with decent tooling/autocomplete

If the names were more abstract, as in some java code, then it would be somewhat dubious in value. Most of these seem very precise however.

It is a problem. The class names don't fit in the class browser window, which means you have constantly be resizing it to read the end of the class name.

The problem isn't with the names. The problem is with overcomplicated architecture that leads to names like that.

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