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DSMan195276yesterday at 11:28 PM1 replyview on HN

Yeah this definitely falls into the category of "I use them so they feel natural", there's nothing amazing about those names.

The underlying problem is that you now run into so many named things (utilities, libraries, programs, etc.) in a day and they all have to differentiate themselves somehow. You can't name every crypto library `libcrypto` for obvious reasons.


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groosyesterday at 11:32 PM

Fine. Name it sodium-crypto.a or sodium.crypto.a or whatever. The author's complaint does hold water.

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