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		lupire on Sept 13, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Software component names should be whimsical and c... Renaming is work that doesn't improve the functionality.

smsm42 on Sept 17, 2022 | [–]

Only is you see "functionality" as "code being run in production". A lot of things then don't improve "functionality" - design documents, comments, use cases, tests, documentation, tutorials, etc. Proper software project still does all of it.

xpe on Sept 13, 2022 | [–]

Functionality isn't all that matters. Software has many other aspects.

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