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It's well-established that naming things is one of the two hardest problems in computer science (along with cache invalidation and off-by-one errors). So I solved naming. If you've got a project that needs a name, here you go.
The ingredients are simple:
1. Your name.
2. The word "obvious".
3. A good adjective.
4. The kind of thing you've made.
The canonical example, from which this scheme was reverse-engineered, is Tom's Obvious, Minimal Language. People who haven't used TOML might think that "obvious" is functioning here to describe the language, but various attributes of TOML (non-ASCII keys requiring quotes, substantial distinctions between single- and double-quoted strings, array-of-tables syntax) indicate that "obvious" is merely part of the name template rather than an actual descriptor.
Tom's Obvious, Minimal Language
non-ASCII keys requiring quotes
substantial distinctions between single- and double-quoted strings
As an example, we can construct a name for this approach to assigning names to things. My name is *cactus* (for some value of "name", and for that matter "my"), it would be good if this was *intuitive*, and this is a *naming scheme*. As such, the name this process assigns to itself is "Cactus's Obvious, Intuitive Naming Scheme", which abbreviates nicely to "COINS".
We can also construct COINS names for other things:
Despite the fact that Tom's Obvious, Minimal Language inspired this naming scheme, it actually suffers greatly from having used it. If I ever get my hands on a time machine, I will go back and tell Tom to call it "My INI-Like Format" instead.
Bjarne's Obvious, Powerful Language
Donald's Obvious, Expressive Language
Leslie's Obvious, Usable Macros
Jack's Obvious, Nightmarish Hellsite
Sonja's Obvious, Minimal Language
Kurt's Obvious, Profound Theorem
[Miku]'s Obvious, Engaging Film