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According to <a href="https://www.karlton.org/karlton/" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Phil Karton</a> there are famously “only <strong>two</strong> <a href="https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/a/39178" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">hard things in Computer Science</a>: <strong>cache invalidation</strong> and <strong>naming things</strong>.”</p>
<p>It turns out that one of the hardest ever objects to name is anything representing a human being.  Here are the the Top Ten assumptions why we get it wrong, originally compiled by <a href="https://x.com/patio11" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">patio11</a> in 2010.</p>
<h2>1. People have exactly one canonical full name.</h2>
<h2>2. People have exactly one full name which they go by.</h2>
<h2>3. People have, at this point in time, exactly one canonical full name.</h2>
<h2>4. People have, at this point in time, one full name which they go by.</h2>
<h2>5. People have exactly N names, for any value of N.</h2>
<h2>6. People’s names fit within a certain defined amount of space.</h2>
<h2>7. People’s names do not change.</h2>
<h2>8. People’s names change, but only at a certain enumerated set of events.</h2>
<h2>9. People’s names are written in ASCII.</h2>
<h2>10. People’s names are written in any single character set.</h2>
<p>There are actually <a href="https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/?ref=blog.codinghorror.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">21 more after those</a>.</p>


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Naming things, especially anything representing a human, is one of the hardest challenges in computer science. This post lists ten myths developers often believe about names, such as the assumption that people have exactly one canonical full name or that names do not change. There are additional complexities beyond these myths, making the task even more difficult.

Ten Myths Developer's Believe About Names

<p>This article was such a fun read, so many misconceptions about names do we have etched into our brains, and we find it so strange when there are multiple outliers that defy all our name expectations at such a scale you start to wonder if the “normal names” are the outliers</p>


<p>My favorite,  conventional name that I’ve run across is “Sam I Am Not An American Citizen”.</p>
