Naming Conventions, Where's the Convention Waldo?

[rantingrick]

On Jul 11, 3:03 am, "Günther Dietrich" <gd.use... at spamfence.net>
wrote:

> So, it is not a disadvantage that the functions you listed above are
> named in this way. In the contrary, it is an advantage, as it keeps
> newcomers from using stupid variable names.

"int" for an Integer is stupid?
"list" for a List is stupid?
"str" for a String is stupid?

What am i missing?