There's a common adage in computer science that naming things is the hardest problem in computer science.
And that's not actually true.
It's just the hardest problem.
@patcharcana There are three concurrency! large problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, off-by-one errors, and, of course,
@ascii158 @patcharcana The two hardest problems in computer science are that 1) people are the hardest problem in computer science, and 2) convincing people that people are the hardest problem in computer science.
@sleepyfox @patcharcana * think you are talking about *applied* computer science
@ascii158 @patcharcana That depends on how you define 'computer'...
@sleepyfox @ascii158 @patcharcana
... And 'science', now that I think of it.