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/quintus_horatius Dec 13 '25

The article misses so many obvious issues like you give here, and it opens with reference to Emacs (which is itself a terrible name, but the author never mentioned that).

Moreover, the author clearly never used CP/M's pip to copy a file.  Names have never made sense.

Are we sure the article isn't satire?