All In a Name
Feb. 24th, 2008 11:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
paserbypNames and naming conventions are nothing new to programmers, as anyone who has tried to read the source code of a new programming language knows. Which suggests there is a formality to names, a philosophy of names, if you will.
Take James Hack (http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/cms/jhack), for instance. Dr. Hack, who is a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research was recently appointed director of the National Center for Computational Sciences at the Oak Ridge National Lab. How great is that? A computer scientist named "Hack." Okay, I should be offering congratulations to Dr. Hack instead of having fun with his name. But I doubt that I'm the first person Dr. Hack has run into who's pointed out the irony of this.
Jonathan Erickson, http://www.ddj.com
Take James Hack (http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/cms/jhack), for instance. Dr. Hack, who is a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research was recently appointed director of the National Center for Computational Sciences at the Oak Ridge National Lab. How great is that? A computer scientist named "Hack." Okay, I should be offering congratulations to Dr. Hack instead of having fun with his name. But I doubt that I'm the first person Dr. Hack has run into who's pointed out the irony of this.
Jonathan Erickson, http://www.ddj.com
