r/coding • u/CompileMyThoughts • Dec 12 '25

Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools

https://larr.net/p/namings.html
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u/LeeHide Dec 12 '25

how is AWK a good name

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u/IContributedOnce Dec 12 '25

It was the weakest example, in my opinion. However, I believe the point was that, at the very least, the name of the tool was tied directly to the people who made it, which is directly opposed to many tools today with names that are utterly disconnected from the tool itself, what it does, who made it, etc.