Why Naming is the Hardest Programming Problem

Adam and I were pairing, working through a critical piece of our program's architecture. The cursor sat blinking. We had been staring at it in awkward silence. We were stumped.

"I'm leaning toward 'version'", I said, as much to break the silence as anything else.

Adam considered for a moment, then replied, "Well, that might cause confusion. Someone might expect it to be a semantic version or a sequential integer. What if we go with 'reference'?"

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