Personally I think the current "API" has too much cruft in it.
Functions are not always named consistently, and sometimes
are hard to remember due to their weird names or capitalization.
A well-publicized "great renaming" of functions could be
tremendously useful and good. Python the language went
through this in I think v1.3 and it turned out well. It would be easy
to have a compatibility proc library for those that needed the old
names due to legacy code.
Refactoring is a fact of life. Renaming (when needed) should be
as well.
