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I'm curious as to why you think a single name field is better than the traditional separate first and last?
by ethanpil 4y ago
I'm curious as to why you think a single name field is better than the traditional separate first and last?
- Daishiman 4y agoPer https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/ https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-... , names have far too much ambiguity to consider that two fields is necessary or sufficient to encapsulate that information.
- mdisc 4y agoMaybe for consumer apps, but for a lot of enterprise apps that have to be compatible with existing APIs or domain-specific data standard that require two name fields, that’s not really a viable approach.