Software Naming Revisited
What do I know about naming software projects? Maybe it’s not such a good idea to give your project a name which is a common typo of a common word?
Google Search suggests that it’s a mistake:
TestNG has achieved sufficient popularity to overcome that problem. ReportNG is not there yet.
Google Alerts doesn’t like it much either. I have alerts for each of my projects so I can see where they are being used and respond to any queries that may arise elsewhere on the web. An alert for “ReportNG” results in an e-mail every time somebody somewhere on the web misspells “reporting”. Not particularly helpful. So I tried “ReportNG AND TestNG”. Now I get an e-mail for every slack-fingered typist who manages to make two separate typos on the same page.
on February 17th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
Ironic, considering that “google” itself is a misspelling of “googol”. In this case, though, the misspelling became much more common than the original word.