I think two of the absolute worst names of them all are "dynamic programming" and "memoization". Don't get me wrong: I'll write you a 0-1 knapsack using DP in a

I think two of the absolute worst names of them all are "dynamic programming" and "memoization". Don't get me wrong: I'll write you a 0-1 knapsack using DP in a hurry without any problem but it's just crazy that it's called "dynamic programming". I don't care about the justification for the term "dynamic programming" nor for the term "memoization". They are just plain wrong. Honestly compared to these two, "Bloom filter" sounds reasonable. Heck, if "dynamic programming" had been called "Bellman programming" and "memoization" had been called "Mitchie memo" (by the name of their respective inventors), it would be less confusing. So maybe, after all, that "Bloom filter" isn't that bad. Had we let the author pick a name, maybe he'd have picked "ephemeral spectrum" or something like that. Yeah. I think naming after the name of the inventor is far from the worse actually. And it kinda gives credit where it's due too.