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I think this episode and the recent brouhaha from someone naming a CLI "bro" have shown that an attempt at humor in naming things generally just diverts the att
by ville 13y ago
I think this episode and the recent brouhaha from someone naming a CLI "bro" have shown that an attempt at humor in naming things generally just diverts the attention from the technology to other things.
- Symmetry 13y agoIt's more that naming things is one of the two hardest things in CS, along with concurrency and off by one errors. But seriously, there are lots of clever names that everybody loves, it's just that it's easy to get clever wrong and you should think about how your name could be misinterpreted. And you should avoid swearing, sexuality, and violence like the plague.
- Crito 13y agoMaybe I should submitting a pull request to change "kill" to "signal".