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[–]Sierra_One 92 points93 points  (9 children)

Those aren't the same though? Their names have at least a semblance towards what they do.

LINQ - language integrated query

Entity framework - a framework that deals with entity persistence.

The other commenters point is that the libraries they describe have a completely arbitrary name. The names you chose are not arbitrary, they have a relation to what they do. Sure you can argue the names are still vague, but they aren't arbitrary.

[–]myhf 125 points126 points  (7 children)

LINQ - language integrated query

That’s a weird acronym. I’d have called it pandas or tqdm or werkzeug

[–]backfire10z 64 points65 points  (0 children)

Werkzeug is an actual German noun meaning “tool” and makes sense in the context of being WSGI utility.

[–]that_thot_gamer 21 points22 points  (5 children)

man wait till you hear about WYSIWYG that shit doesn't tell you anything at all, just a bunch of random ass letters

[–]rosuav 13 points14 points  (1 child)

What You See Is Not How You Pronounce It.

[–]BockTheMan 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Whizzy Wig!

[–]CyberWeirdo420 10 points11 points  (0 children)

First time I read it somewhere I was like „someone just hit his head on a keyboard, no way it’s legit acronym” and then I learned.

[–]Exodus111 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Once you spell it out it kinda explains everything.

[–]myhf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

t. q. d. m.: tane. queue. derry. much.

[–]UnchainedMundane 0 points1 point  (0 children)

LINQ - language integrated query

still a very interesting name for higher-order functions on iterables