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Ben Halpern

Code names are fun because they’re also sort of useful. Having the concept of code names helps give things names without as much overhead or pressure.

Puns or other plays on words in code can really suck. Easy way to make something fun much less fun due to confusion.

Explicit code names: good.
Puns: use with great caution.

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Phil Nash

Oh yeah, in code things should have boring names. If it's boring it just says what it does, makes it easier to see what it does for everyone using the codebase, particularly newcomers.

Pun should be everywhere else though.