What’s in a name?

Matt Carroll
5 min readSep 14, 2022

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Programmers name everything. Patterns, packages, classes, functions, and variables. They all have names. And those names exist to communicate information to other developers about the purpose, role, and behavior of a given artifact. Today, on Twitter, I was informed that the software industry doesn’t need to align on the definitions of common programming names. Instead, we only need to ensure that the members of a given team share the same definitions for…

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