> Not sure why people think it has to so with naming variables or functions... I think it’s open to interpretation. And I think it is valid to apply the saying

> Not sure why people think it has to so with naming variables or functions... I think it’s open to interpretation. And I think it is valid to apply the saying to naming of variables, functions, and many other things. See https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/19836/has-phil-karlton-ever-said-there-are-only-two-hard-things-in-computer-science https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/19836/has-phil-... Links to https://www.karlton.org/2017/12/naming-things-hard/ https://www.karlton.org/2017/12/naming-things-hard/ Links to a bunch of places. None of the ones I looked at seem to confidently say what was originally meant by the saying. Either way, regardless of what the guy meant when he originally used to say it, it’s allowed to apply a saying to new situations.