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plorkyeran ◴[] No.46237424[source]
> grep (global regular expression print), awk (Aho, Weinberger, Kernighan; the creators’ initials), sed (stream editor), cat (concatenate), diff (difference). Even when abbreviated, these names were either functional descriptions or systematic derivations.

If you asked someone unfamiliar with unix tools what they thought each of these commands did, diff is the only one which they would have even the slightest chance of guessing. It's ridiculous to complain about "libsodium" and then hold up "awk" as a good name.

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mojuba ◴[] No.46237555[source]
However once you learn that sed means stream editor, you won't ever forget it. libsodium is forgettable.
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1. Gigachad ◴[] No.46242688[source]
Libsodium isn’t a tool or program the average user casually uses. Anyone who actually has to use it in their project even once will remember it.

How often do you forget what Firefox or Gnome are?