BRbradleyland·Dec 18, 2012
This is a nitpick, and I don't mean to diminish the job you guys have done, but I loathe projects that use metaphorical class/object/script names. I'm the guy responsible for infrastructure in our organization, so naturally, I started digging in to see what's going on under the hood.
So I drill down:
lib...
badger...
core...
Claws and teeth? WTF are these? How do they relate to each other?
When I start reading the code, I constantly have to maintain a mental map between the metaphorical basis of these claws and teeth. It strikes me as useless mental baggage when I'm trying to understand how something works.
I'm probably a little bit oversensitive to this because of an experience I had with a Ruby IRC bot library called Autumn [1]. It's a very neat little library, but I got stuck in a very frustrating pattern. I would get Autumn set up the
Read the rest
way I like it, then not touch it for a long time. Every time I circled back to it, I had to re-learn what Seasons and Leaves were. They could just as easily have been named Contexts and Bots.
Sorry for the negativity, because I'm otherwise liking the project. I'm going to give it a shot on our test-build infrastructure!
1: https://github.com/RISCfuture/autumn