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Why do names have to come from the English dictionary? Google can't (couldn't) be found in one.
by persnickety 2y ago
Why do names have to come from the English dictionary? Google can't (couldn't) be found in one.
- tgv 2y agoThe English dictionary was an example. English names are also rather popular among devs. But there aren't over 100M unique words and names in the world, and most of them would, simply put, suck as names for projects.
- persnickety 2y ago100000000 is 8 significant places. If you build words by choosing out of 10 viable following letters out of an alphabet, you'll hit that in 8 characters. That's not an especially long word. (I don't actually know if that's a good heuristic, but at least it gives an idea.) Maybe a lot of them suck as project names, but name collisions also suck. I'd rather have unique names rather than beautiful but hard to find ones. Collisions are fine if they happen across geographical and cultural boundaries, but the software culture, for better or worse, is pretty global.