For people who believe code isn't literature descriptive names are wasted characters. The biggest difference between code and literature is that code is structured where literature isn't (literature makes up for this with a flow like a plot). Explicit structures are things like subtypes and nested scopes, qualities that exist directly and not through inference or reference resolution. There are things that can be inferred directly from structures like context and scope. For these developers code can be less explicit and less wordy because they aren't reading code line by line and guessing at how the pieces come together.
The code is literature camp represents an educated formalism. In the absence of explicit structures you need to understand what the code is doing by simply reading the code.
The problem with the code is literature approach is that it is for humans only. The computer absolutely doesn't care, and so therefore it can be wrong or deceptive.