The importance of a name.

In 1936(!), Dale Carnegie wrote in his book, How to Win Friends and Influence People about how important names are to most people. I personally learned this in another great book from Steve McConnell. He wrote Code Complete in 1993. I must have been ...

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Alex Watson

Emerging Data Scientist

Jun 11, 2023

that's great. in the meantime would some to see some more

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Sandeep Panda

co-founder, Hashnode

Jun 1, 2023

Wow. Thanks for bringing this up. 100% agree with you that "naming" is probably something very crucial. A lot of us do take shortcuts, but as long as it's documented, and communicated well it reduces the risk to a great extent.

I still believe people shouldn't take shortcuts whenever possible, especially while naming things. :)

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