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Comment by crimsonalucard | Hacker News Reader

Why in the world would programmers name a feature after a programming primitive?

I'm gonna make a new chat app called deadlock.

Pretty unlikely that Facebook is allowing programmers to name this type of thing.

Why in the world would Microsoft name an operating system after a UI primitive? Doomed to failure, I tell you.

The UI primitive was named after the operating system.

The word 'thread' has existed since long before computers.

That's not the point. The point is programmers created this feature and decided name it the same thing they used to create it.

A seamstress isn't going to call a piece of cloth a thread, when cloth is made up of threads.

Why do you think the programmers decided on what the name is?

A product marketing team named the app, not the programmers.

Do you think Facebook is just a company made up of programmers?

No obviously not, but I would think they have influence on the name.

I'd be willing to bet big money that the programmers did not name this app. In a company the size of Facebook, that'd be a miracle.

Said they, on the "Y-Combinator" Hacker News comments.

Y combinator is more a math thing. Not a programming primitive. Highly doubt there's any Y combinators in the code being used to build this site.

Follow the sensible approach instead, and name your messaging app with a catchy generic name, like "Messenger" or "iMessages".

Ugh. RIGHT? No product should be named after a Programming terminology. Who does that right? :|