Thread by @albertobasalo

🏷️ Naming is so important and so cumbersome in programming as Phil Karlton coined in his famous cite:

"There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things."

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📐From the design phase.
Having a common name glossary is the central point in methodologies like #DDD.
But even if you don´t follow it, you will appreciate having a #ubiquitous language to communicate with all the people involved.

🚧 In the architect's hands naming is the core of its work.
Creating #patterns is given a name to proven solutions. Using them is using those names.
Dividing codebases and defining #layers and #tiers forces you to give them a name.

🏗️ When coding you are writing the user #stories in a formal and precise language.
But this #programming language is scarce in words.
Only the #basic constructs for creating modules, functions, classes, data structures, and a few control flow instructions.

👷 Everything else is your #responsibility.
You are writing stories in your #own language.
Yes, you #create the language in what you write.
Naming your variables and your functions is like establishing nouns and verbs for a new language; a language adapted to the business #domain

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