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Re:Software component names should be whimsical and cryptic by khazhoux on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @01:22PM (#32827355)
Do products/components really evolve so much that the name frequently become outdated?

Half the article is like, "There was a component called YamlParser, which is now a browser-based stable-diffusion renderer!"

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Re:Software component names should be whimsical and cryptic by ThePadawan on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @01:53PM (#32827875)
I've worked on tools that were slightly misnamed after 6 months, and completely misnamed after 2 years. At that point they were also usually just nearly useless due to feature bloat and/or lack of scalability, so deprecated or replaced with something better.

They didn't change names, but their successors would get a new one.

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Re:Software component names should be whimsical and cryptic by badhombres on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @02:15PM (#32828194)
Yep, enough that they need a caveat every time someone new is told of the product. It happens, and it's gotten worse due to Agile.
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Re:Software component names should be whimsical and cryptic by version_five on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @07:01PM (#32831240)
Look at IBM "Watson". It had evolved from an AI jeopardy and Q&A engine into basically whatever salespeople make up.
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