From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2007-04-27T02:49:50+09:00
Subject: Re: DHH vs. WHY style

On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 10:26:54PM +0900, James Edward Gray II wrote:
> I also don't think whimsical names have to be unhelpful.  When I  
> ported File::ReadBackwards from Perl, I named my version Elif.  I  
> guess you have to "get that" before it helps, but I had to know what  
> Facets was to even make guesses about the more helpful names.  Seems  
> pretty comparable to me.

Unhelpful names are the prevailing trend, though.  It's true about
software and it's true about many automobile manufacturers.  Some do it
because inventing names is fun, and some do it because less generic
names are better for marketing.  I'm convinced, though, that there is a
group out there of nonzero size that comes up with these names just to
make life difficult for me.

Paul