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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: 0.22s | source
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jollyllama ◴[11 Dec 25 22:29 UTC] No.46238189[source]▶
Unfortunately this article misses the worst failure of naming: name collisions.
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1. wmf ◴[11 Dec 25 22:35 UTC] No.46238263[source]▶
Yeah, if we followed this advice every language would have four different packages named http-client.