Thinking about names, as well as scuba diving
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There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors. Naming a project, tool, or concept that you want other people to use is a very hard problem. The most important thing, of course, is that the name sounds cool. Then, significantly less important, but still quite important, is that the name convey useful information to your users. This is where things get tricky.