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2 stories tagged software-tools, newest first.

Screenshot of larr.net: Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools

Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools (larr.net)

373 points by todsacerdoti 10 months ago | 482 comments

A blog essay arguing that software developers name tools after random nouns and mythology instead of descriptive names, citing Stallman's EmacsConf 2022 talk.

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Screenshot of mmapped.blog: Enlightenmentware

Enlightenmentware (mmapped.blog)

393 points by zaik 2 years ago | 195 comments

A blog post on the mmap(blog) site about 'enlightenmentware', software like UNIX, Git, Emacs, Boost.Graph and Bazel that changed how the author thinks about programming.

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#software-tools on Hacker News

Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools(larr.net)

Enlightenmentware(mmapped.blog)

Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools (larr.net)

Enlightenmentware (mmapped.blog)