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thaumasiotestoday at 2:50 AM0 repliesview on HN

> It's ridiculous to complain about "libsodium" and then hold up "awk" as a good name.

Awk is short, easy to pronounce, and difficult to confuse with anything else. It's nearly as perfect as a name can be.

> If you asked someone unfamiliar with unix tools what they thought each of these commands did, diff is the only one which they would have even the slightest chance of guessing.

You seem to have confused the concept of a "name" with that of a "description". The whole point of names is that they aren't descriptive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbitrariness#Linguistics