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I appreciate your emacs perspective, thanks for the input.
I get the sense that programmerhumor hates prefixes, but I'm telling you, they have changed my life. Next project-for-fun, just give it a try and see what happens. I think you'll be surprised.
To many of your points, I say I agree that a lot of naming conventions depend on context. The environment you're working in, the IDE, the team you're working on, the language you're coding in.
However, prefixes I'm firm on. I think it's unpopular because it's from a bygone era where IDEs were non-existent. And while yes, ides have replaced many of the uses, they have been the most radical change to my readability and comprehension of the code I've written.
Also, I'm mostly a js programmer, so yes, very different from emacs.
Also, for calc_SumYears, I literally meant to add the years together, hense the prefix. So, maybe the prefixes are a little more useful than you give them credit.