Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools

The problem with descriptive names is that they start descriptive but then become proper nouns. At a former employer in the Fortune 100 outside the software industry, everything started with a descriptive name, that then became an acronym. And as every project and tool inevitably developed its own idiosyncrasies, the descriptive name pretty soon didn't tell you anything useful about the project at all.

It is an unavoidable reality that knowing something's name gives you very, very little information about what that something is. That's what sentences are for.

Knowing mysql is a database and not a socket wrench is mildly useful but it's more important that I know whether or not it supports enums.

The military starts with a cool name, then makes an immediate backronym for launch.

Spanner is a wrench, or database