Naming Software Packages with Common Words - It is probably fine | /en/2019/04/naming-common-words/

yihui 2022-12-17 05:42:30

Naming Software Packages with Common Words - It is probably fine

https://yihui.org/en/2019/04/naming-common-words/

8 Comments

giscus-bot 2022-12-17 05:42:30

Guest *Zhi Yang* @ 2019-05-02 23:53:18 originally posted:

xaringan is the best. No doubt.

yihui 2022-12-17 05:42:37

It is the best for those who know Naruto, and worst for those who don't :)

Originally posted on 2019-05-03 02:40:08

giscus-bot 2022-12-17 05:42:38

Guest *Shrek, Tan* @ 2019-05-04 01:01:36 originally posted:

Yeah, it’s the worst for me. Never been able to remember the name...

@shrektan

giscus-bot 2022-12-17 05:42:39

访客 *Liechi Zhang* @ 2019-05-04 08:49:23 写道：

You may want to google "宇智波鼬" to have a feeling of "Xaringan" and how the functions inside get their names, though it is not a necessity for using the package. I just enjoy the story a lot, and guess others may enjoy as well.

@liechi

giscus-bot 2022-12-17 05:42:31

Guest *Liechi Zhang* @ 2019-05-04 08:38:39 originally posted:

I agree that "Stan" is not a good name, I prefer "Ulam": ).

Xaringan is not easy for me to remember, though I watched Naruto a lot. I need to do sub("Sh", "X", "Sharingan") in my mind to recall the spelling. But I like it for the idea to relate slideshow to “doujutsu", and the interesting function names under "Sharingan".

@liechi

giscus-bot 2022-12-17 05:42:32

Guest *Jiena Gu* @ 2019-05-06 16:05:36 originally posted:

When I typed 'xaringan', I still had to double check with other comments. So I plan to watch Naruto now...

@jienagu

giscus-bot 2022-12-17 05:42:39

Guest *Siqi Zhang* @ 2019-05-07 04:10:51 originally posted:

Now you have a legitimate defense when your manager questions the anime on your screen, voice coming from behind your shoulder.

@iqis

giscus-bot 2022-12-17 05:42:40

Guest *Jiena Gu* @ 2019-05-07 14:01:48 originally posted:

Haha...

@jienagu

giscus-bot 2022-12-17 05:42:33

Guest *Romain Lesur* @ 2019-05-06 18:49:56 originally posted:

Glad to learn that pagedown comes in first position!

@RLesur

giscus-bot 2022-12-17 05:42:34

Guest *Siqi Zhang* @ 2019-05-07 04:00:22 originally posted:

It seems to me that the main takeaway of this articles is to not fret too much about discoverability. I guess both Google and our civilization has a brilliant and hidden way of resolving namespace conflict problems.

However, if you're interested in learning about tree-like data structure in a programming language, you won't have any luck finding any diagrams by typing "Python tree" or "Java tree" into Google Image Search.

@iqis

giscus-bot 2022-12-17 05:42:35

Guest *Siqi Zhang* @ 2019-05-07 04:04:59 originally posted:

One thing I gotta say: Who the heck understands "Infinite Moon Reader"?

@iqis

giscus-bot 2022-12-17 05:42:35

Guest *Yiqi Zhou* @ 2019-05-31 02:58:44 originally posted:

A much more extreme example is the DT package.

The most extreme example is the name of R language.

giscus-bot 2022-12-17 05:42:36

Guest *Zhian Kamvar* @ 2019-06-27 15:52:55 originally posted:

Google has definitely gotten much better at this. I think it also helps if the name of your software isn't related to the problem it's trying to solve.

I remember having to refine my google search several times until I could find the website for the STRUCTURE or ADMIXTURE software because typing "structure population genetics" would just get me to to the wikipedia page for population genetic structure. And that was after the paper had been out for ten years.