Truth be told, I share your frustration in general with tech naming, especially with enterprise tools and web development tools, but I do think that acronyms an

Truth be told, I share your frustration in general with tech naming, especially with enterprise tools and web development tools, but I do think that acronyms and initialisms--when the expansion is descriptive and accurate (a non-example being LAME, for instance)--are a reasonable compromise between "call something what it is" (which CIDER and SLIME both do, modulo an extra snarky word or two) and "avoid having a name which is 25 characters long".