HACKER Q&A
📣 mfbx9da4

Do you know of a code specific thesaurus?


I often find myself reaching for some synonym for "fooID", "generateFoo", "buildFoo" or "getFoo".

Is there some thesaurus for programming words I can lean back on?

  👤 a3n Accepted Answer ✓
Only tangentially related to what you're looking for, but you made me think of:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jargon_File

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/

If it expands your mind, maybe that's good enough.

👤 arkitaip
Just like writing fiction, no one cares if you keep repeating yourself as much as you do. Keep using the de facto standards so that your fellow devs can easily read your code and get on with their work.