Confucius (551 BC--479 BC) said in The Analect:

What is necessary is to rectify names. If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. If language be not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success.

Of course he was talking about calling your father father, and calling your king king. But his realization of the power of names is profound.

Just think:

• When was the last time you extended XML without causing trouble?
• You can be on an EJB project without knowing anything about EJB.
• Extreme Programming is perfectly common sense.
• You can find things faster on the Internet with Google than on your local file system.
• Did you ever refactor your code to change its behavior?

Now, was what you had for lunch today really food?

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Posted by Weiqi Gao on January 4, 2004 12:47:17 PM CST #