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I think a good word for an idea makes it much easier to grasp and use. For example: provider pattern. It obviously provides something

Some other words:

• Adapter: Class that wraps existing code in an interface needed by another piece of the program.
• Stub: Very basic implementation used as a placeholder. Useful while developing code that needs a service, but you don’t want to use the whole service because it is too slow or doesn’t exist yet.
• Velocity: If the build breaks, it hinders the velocity of the other developers…”
• Utility: a utility function is a function that takes an input and returns a value without external dependencies.

I want to get better at writing partially to get better at coding. I think a good chunk of coding is good naming and clear code. I have read somewhere that you should write code a human can understand, not a computer. If you just write something the computer can understand we’d all still be writing assembler, or worse machine code.

Many of my examples were design patterns. The purpose of defining a design pattern is so that developers can have a common vocabulary. So, that when someone says they are going to make an adapter class, everyone knows what they mean. I think they fit this post rather well.