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Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools

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311 points todsacerdoti | 1 comments | 11 Dec 25 18:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.198s | source
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wpollock ◴[11 Dec 25 18:50 UTC] No.46235391[source]▶
If you didn't already know, what do you think a tool called "emacs" does?
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1. ctoth ◴[11 Dec 25 19:04 UTC] No.46235628[source]▶
> If you didn't already know, what do you think a tool called "emacs" does?

Hmm, this looks like a nonsense word, but sometimes words look like nonsense when you write them backwards, maybe it's a scame?