Jamie points out this interesting article about how hard it is for programmers to get names right. Since software ultimately is used by and for humans, and we humans are pretty tightly linked to our names (whatever the language, spelling, or orthography), this is a big deal. This piece notes some of the ways that names get mishandled, and suggests rules of thumb (in the form of anti-suggestions) to encourage programmers to handle names more gracefully.pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.slashdot.org% 2Fstory%2F10%2F06%2F17%2F2347257%2FFalsehoods-Programmers-Believe-About-Names" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Falsehoods+Programmers+Believe+About+N ames%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F9jpwZk" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/06/17/2347257/Falsehoods-Programmers-Believe-About-Names?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ZDaZjgDtzcG7iylEO6hCUwFRA-E/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ZDaZjgDtzcG7iylEO6hCUwFRA-E/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ZDaZjgDtzcG7iylEO6hCUwFRA-E/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ZDaZjgDtzcG7iylEO6hCUwFRA-E/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/XpuohKgbM8A" height="1" width="1"/

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