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> The most counterintuitive thing is that having a cryptic name for a concept can have advantages: it has a precise meaning, and if you don't know what it is, you can't convince yourself that you do.

To see complete and total saturation of that concept, take a look at the source code of Urbit

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Example: https://github.com/urbit/urbit/blob/master/noun/vortex.c#L23...

I can confirm this is roughly what the intentional source code looked like.

Personally I found it a huge pain and an unnecessary difficulty, but opinions differed :). The bigger problem was a lot of the code was crap (yay research code!). The lack of english names only made this more difficult because it removed valuable clues as to what the intention of the author might have been.

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