Quickie

Quick Thought: Names are important. Project names are responsible for a large part of the initial impression of a project. Class and object names, are even more important. They have a direct impact on the maintainability of the code, as well is how productive you are as you are writing it. For any nontrivial program structure, good names help organize your thoughts as you are developing it. I wish I could go into more depth, but I should get back to solving this problem before it leaves my short-term memory. (Here's what happened: I was having a problem structuring my research -- couldn't figure out how to make it all work together. I renamed a class to better represent what it is, and everything suddenly clicked.)

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tadan on May 11, 2005

Tell that to your parents. ZING!

elfric on May 11, 2005

Ursula K. LeGuin wrote a whole series centering around "true names" if I remember correctly. Names have power, and how we represent concepts in our heads makes a huge difference in how we think about those concepts. i.e. I 100% agree with you =)

aegisknight on May 11, 2005

Is that the lady who wrote the book that was the TV show that my friends complained about?

tjwitz on May 18, 2005

Yes, and Jared still hasn't loaned me those books to read. :)

ikaev on Jul 7, 2005

You right. For example: Oxana is name that makes it's owner brilliant girl. Fatima - the same but it also gives strong charisma. Michael gives many vitality and strong mind.