As creators of Go have strong ties with the creators of C, that idea is not so dated.
Re:Go Naming Conventions: A Practical Guide
by giancarlostoro on Sunday March 29, 2026 @08:40PM
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Just because some brought it back to modern languages, doesn't mean it's not rooted in a practice from constrained hardware. I'd rather we name things what they mean.
Give your variables, functions, classes meaningful descriptive names that make sense to humans.