On: Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools

[Tade0]

Back in college we had an old program used to analyse oscilloscope data named ANAL.

[madcaptenor → Tade0]

I studied analytic combinatorics in grad school. Had to be sure not to abbreviate it to "anal comb".

[breezykoi → Tade0]

At school we called our module analsyn for syntactic analyser. Good times.