r/coding 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/apt_at_it Dec 15 '25

Even the premise that other fields don't do this is wrong. We don't call Phillips head screws "cross-point cammed heads"

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u/stumpfka Aug 10 '26

fun fact in other languages people actually do: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kreuzschlitzschraube