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submitted 2 days ago by 9to5@hexbear.net to c/technology@hexbear.net

As a recent convert. What the fuck are these names ? LET ME OPEN UP SCRUNGLE and use it to JINX my DOLPHIN. I get that they are trying to be witty but sometimes less is more.

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[-] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 15 points 2 days ago

sometimes it's a flippant name for quick throwaway program that then somehow becomes major infrastructure but it's too late to change it now.

That's 99% of it. Naming things suck, and as soon as you share it and people start using it you can't change the name.

I feel like around the late 2010s we started getting more "serious" names for things. I do always love the packageN scheme though. Especially when there's like no historical record or real usage of versions 1-(N-1) lol

Python is littered with numbered packages that don't have any maintained or distributed precursors anymore, but they're forever urllib3, jinja2 or httplib2.

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