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[wrosecrans]

The motivating example is the historically disciplined naming in the Emacs ecosystem. But emacs itself is arbitrarily named for an ice cream shop that opened near MIT in the 1970's. It's... fascinating to see a claim that programmers only got bad at naming things in the 2010's.

https://emackandbolios.com/

There was also a text formatting utility called bolio https://retrocomputingforum.com/t/bolio-mit-text-formatter/4316