I remember in a previous job the IT guys started using superhero names for the machines. They were even grouped by which universe the heroes come from (marvel,

I remember in a previous job the IT guys started using superhero names for the machines. They were even grouped by which universe the heroes come from (marvel, dc, etc). Even when they did descriptive names, it was all backwards like <instanceID>-<env>-<role>-<project> yielding things like 2-dev-db-something. Trying to explain how that made sorting machines by name impossible was alien speak to them. I think the reason programmers are better with names is that we get to name many, many more things. Variables, functions, parameters, namespaces, endpoints, the list just goes on both in the small and the large.