Does functional programming mandate new naming conventions?

Question

I recently started studying functional programming using Haskell and came upon this article on the official Haskell wiki: How to read Haskell.

The article claims that sh

Answer 1

I just attended a number of talks on Haskell with lots of code samples. As longs as the code dealt with x, i and f the naming didn't bother me. However, as soon as we got into heavy duty list manipulation and the like I found the three letters or so names to be a lot less readable than I prefer.

To be fair a significant part of the naming followed a set of conventions, so I assume that once you get into the lingo it will be a little easier.

Fortunately, nothing prevents us from using meaningful names, but I don't agree that the language itself somehow makes three letter identifiers meaningful to the majority of people.