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Funny and Irrelevant Program Names?

Posted by Cliff on from the just-for-the-fun-of-it dept.

dentar asks: "I got into a conversation with a peer today about funny names we've given programs in the past. I have a small program I wrote for a client called omnihurl whose purpose is to get a summary listing of their last 20 omniback backups and display them. I called it that because I couldn't think of a good name when I wrote it.. It never got renamed. That program is still used every day and is about seven years old. The guy I was talking with had written a backup script named shazbot. A few years later a friend and I wrote a program that was going to be a dynamic DNS type of client and server. I couldn't think of a name for those either, so they wound up being whale and plankton. We still laugh about it. So, how's about y'all? What's the funniest thing you ever named a program? The more irrelevant to its purpose, the better."

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  1. Obvious one? by Dr.+Bent · · Score: 5, Funny
    fsck
    I always lemented that there wasn't a -u option
  2. *cackle* by skinfitz · · Score: 5, Funny

    Many years ago on a programming course we visited Belgium with a project based on travel and tourism - the thing was a database for booking holidays etc.

    I remember the conversation from my lecturers:

    Them: "Come up with the name - you're good at stuff like that."

    Me: "Uh.. oookkk... how about Computer Literacy and Information Technology Organisational Relational Information System?"

    Them: "That's brilliant! We really like it!"

    Me: "Now there's just this one drawback..."

    1. Re:*cackle* by Ranger+Rick · · Score: 5, Funny

      Me: "Now there's just this one drawback..."

      What, can't find it? =)

      --

      WWJD? JWRTFM!!!

  3. Debugging utility program by cjhuitt · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, at work I wrote a quick utility to add debugging information to our code, and since I couldn't think of anything better I called it "debuggery". Knowing full well what buggery implies, of course.

    Come a few weeks later, there's another utility to remove the debugging information. Called, of course, "rebuggery".

  4. Software named win-something by Bothari · · Score: 5, Funny

    Back in the day that every new piece of software for windows 3.1 was named win-something, my then employer used that exact same naming scheme, where the something was a shortening of the subject matter of the app.

    One day we did an analysis tool for the other apps. The marketing departement got as far as actually printing brochures before noticing that maybe Win-Anal wasn't such a good name after all.....