Comment by jancsika

> The "credit" and "debit" terminology is ridiculous because their definitions swap around depending on which account you're talking about, which is an utterly absurd (mis)use of language and the main reason people find this confusing.

As a neophyte: "credit" and "debit" make me think I'd need both entries to do books at all.

The way you've written it makes me think: "Oh, this is just single-entry accounting for people who aren't careful like me!"

So perhaps historically there was value in misusing terminology sufficiently to cause people to people turn off the optimizing compiler in their brain so that they just learn and do it correctly from the beginning?

Edit: clarification