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Quotes of the week

[Posted November 7, 2012 by n8willis]

No matter whether we increase the length of development or not, the time between feature freeze and the spinning of a release is too quick.

— Toshio Kuratomi

I have since then switched to the Awesome Window Manager which is probably the worst name you can use for software (try googling for "Awesome crash" to get an idea).

— Antoine Beaupré

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Bad program names

Posted Nov 8, 2012 19:14 UTC (Thu) by david.a.wheeler (guest, #72896) [Link]

No, "Why" and "THE" are even worse names. And yes, both have been used.

Bad program names

Posted Nov 15, 2012 13:01 UTC (Thu) by robbe (guest, #16131) [Link]

Links would have been nice for the curious.

Wikipedia knows
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THE_multiprogramming_system
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hessling_Editor
which both predate the spread of the web, so you can't fault them for not anticipating searchability problems.

http://why.lri.fr/ OTOH should have known better. It's not on Wikipedia, so finding it was a bit harder.

That said, searching for "awesome wm crash" WFM. Best in google, but ddg does reasonably well.