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Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names

• pcopley 14y ago
  This has been posted a few times and is almost a year old. It is an excellent blog, though. Worth reading the newer entries.
  • jaredsohn 14y ago
    >and is almost a year old I think the submitter realizes this. The end of the URL includes '?repost-after-a-year' :) Edit: But it is still worth pointing that out to people reading the comments here since obviously not everyone will notice that. Edit2: While roughly a year since it was last posted (nine months), the article is two years old now. Original discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1438472 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1438472
    • pcopley 14y ago
      Touche, I missed that.
    • raganwald 14y ago
      > I think the submitter realizes this I actually retitled it “Falsehoods Programmers (Still!)Believe About Names,” but somehow it is back to the blog’s title.
• phene 14y ago
  And yet there is no formal set of rules for names that can be enforced. Without it, we are forced to pick and choose assumptions.