For a bunch of supposed geniuses, software developers have a way of building mazes from straight lines. Consider how much sense the following suggestion makes, and then consider from whom it originates- some nobody on the internet.
Use English suffixes for extensions.
Executables ought to be declined similarly to verbs, because you use them to do things. The most obvious example is -er. If your program multiplies two numbers, the executable should be named multipli.er, not multiply.exe. If the executable file is the launcher, name it launch.er. Such a simple idea, it’s downright stupid.
Functions should always be named with verbs. If the function adds its arguments, it’s a transitive verb and should be named as such. Which means that the most esoteric form of “divide a and b” should be divide(a,b), not quotient(a,b). We’re speaking in the imperative mood here, not the indicative. And honestly, I think we can do better than that. If a function doesn’t take an argument, it’s an intransitive verb.
We have a lot of available suffixes (suffices?) for different file extensions. And that’s not even to mention the use of portmanteaus, like “home.page”. It’s such a simple idea that I’m already bored with it.
Aeoli Pera 