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Michel Renaud

Speaking of being bad at naming things. Every time I see "naming" mentioned, I'm reminded of a coworker in the early '90s. She named all her source files like this:

TOTO1.SAS
TOTO2.SAS
...and so on (that was MS-DOS, so filenames were uppercase).

You opened one of the files and what were the variables name?

Yup: TOTO1, TOTO2, TOTO3, and so on...

Somehow she could figure this out. But, good luck to anyone else going in there. Mind you, I started with interpreted BASIC in the early '80s and because of limited RAM we usually named variables A, B, C, D, .......

As for product names, I won't even go there.