Share 'What's in a name? How we screwed up naming in Newton once and why we won't ever again.'

Be really (really) careful how you name things. And, NEVER use the same word to describe two different things. Sloppy naming can lead to minor frustrations, or it can lead to some really big problems for your users. The road to sloppy naming is paved by the careless use of synonyms or by naming two different things with the same word or phrase. First of all, let’s look at synonyms (the more...