It's reasonable to be surprised when a computer science term uses a metaphor, but I don't think it's fair to call it a poor name unless you also object to almos

It's reasonable to be surprised when a computer science term uses a metaphor, but I don't think it's fair to call it a poor name unless you also object to almost every other name in programming. Strings have nothing to do with textiles. And, very confusingly, they aren't even related to fibers or threads. Zippers aren't related to textiles either. Trees and bloom filters are not related to botany. Heaps and garbage collection are not about municipal waste management. Graph coloring, despite the term, has nothing to do with either pictures or pigments. Red-black trees aren't colored or botanical. Bubble sort does not involve fluid dynamics. Neither does bucket or cocktail shaker sort for that matter. Circular buffers are not round. You can't eat a spaghetti stack or poke your finger on a cactus stack.