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Zohar Peled • Edited

ContentProcessor. MessageReceiver. MessageSender. DataProcessor. There are so many it's hard to choose from. In my defense, I'm forced to use such names.

In the .Net world there's a naming convention of adding suffixes to classes - like FileNotFoundException which is kinda dumb IMHO.

I mean, you only use exceptions in two places: throw and catch. You know if you have throw new SomeClass() in your code, SomeClass is derived from Exception, same as if you have try {...} catch(SomeClass x) {...} - so why not just call it FileNotFound?

I'm not alone in this, there are other developers that share the same sentiment. In fact, I once read about a software engineer that got so sick of it he had all his classes add with Thingy.

Also, I once named one of my variables Yevgeni, but that was in honor of a fellow developer that got fired :-)

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Joel Varty

I suffer from this too (ManagementSecurityValidationException)