Peter Hamilton on Naming

• naming is hard even though it's not difficult in a technical way
• Hilton says it's hard because it's communication
• programming is about communicating with compuers but also other programmers who will read the code
• names are part of making beautiful, clean code
• takes creativity, but also a solid understanding of the thing you are naming
• one of most common refactorings
• bad name examples-> data, object, thing, foo *good names are good in their particular context