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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: 0s | 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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9rx ◴[11 Dec 25 19:08 UTC] No.46235698[source]▶
If you didn't already know, what do you think a tool called a "combine" does?

Combine things? Nope. Its purpose is to separate things...

Its not just the software industry.

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bigstrat2003 ◴[11 Dec 25 19:42 UTC] No.46236161[source]▶
Technically it's a "combine harvester" as far as I know, which is more intuitive. Though in practice everyone calls it a "combine".
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